Race Quotes
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.John Dalberg
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it.... This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.Clarence Jordan
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.Julian the Apostate
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.Ronald Reagan
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.Jan Glidewell
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.Cicero
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.Bertrand Russell
It may not be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - But that is the way to bet.Damon Runyon
The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.Charles R. Swindoll
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.William H. Borah
Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.Mark L. Mika
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.Ulysses S. Grant
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.Cicero
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.John Dryden
I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart - - The best brain.Robert Green Ingersoll
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.William James
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.Wystan Hugh Auden
The man who dies rich dies disgraced.Andrew Carnegie
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.H. G. Wells
Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.Walter Elliot
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.Saint Augustine
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.Marcus Garvey
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.Alan Simpson
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal it is the discharge of a moral obligation.John Dalberg
O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?William Blake 1803
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.Dio Lewis
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.Ethel Barrymore
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is grace under pressure.Ernest Hemingway
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.Lord Billingsley
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.Unknown
