Race Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Book, Fate

  Thomas Jefferson (2012). “Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

  Malcolm X

  America, Islam, Needs

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.347, Ballantine Books

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• Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Unity, Prejudice, Pits

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• It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

  Robert W. Service

  Winning, Quiet, Lifelong

  Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Dundurn

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• At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Savages, World

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.218, Diversion Books

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• A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Pain, People

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• Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.

  Wally George

  Order, People, Guy

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• Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.

  Booker T. Washington

  Struggle, Self Confidence, Odds

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1977). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1903-4”, p.188, University of Illinois Press

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• There is only one race, the human race.

  Robert Sobukwe

  White Race, Humans, Human Race

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• The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.49, Jaico Publishing House

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• In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

  James Russell Lowell

  Loss, Gains, Claims

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Guilt, Done, Atonement

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

  Andrew Young

  Kings, America, People

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• I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

  Honore de Balzac

  Literature, Finance, Members

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• I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

  Mary Docter

  Relax, Skating

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• Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Dad, Smart

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• When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

  Barry Goldwater

  Christian, Color, White

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• For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!

  Bo Sanchez

  Being Yourself, Be Who You Are, Trying

  FaceBook post by Bo Sanchez from Aug 16, 2010

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• Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Independence, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.165, Oxford University Press

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• My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

  James Meredith

  Father, Equality, America

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• My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

  Edward Brooke

  Parent, Mind, World

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• Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

  William E. Gladstone

  Selfish, Curse, Humans

  Speech in Hawarden, Wales, May 28, 1890.

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• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

  Marcus Garvey

  Life, Trust, Confidence

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

  Federico Tesio

  Horse, Winning, Zoologist

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• Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby?

  Jose Angel Gutierrez

  Baby, White, Revolution

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