Top 717 Race Quotes

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
Sri Aurobindo
I’ve always been quite scared about talking about race. You don’t wanna rock the boat because you want to keep working.
Wunmi Mosaku
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That’s a noble cause, and that’s where we should be heading. But once we get past that – once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with – when we start thinking about the future, there’s an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
Jack Horner
For me personally, I have vitiligo, so my whole career, it’s always been this very odd debate: ‘Does she want to be white? Is she white and black? Is her mum white?’ It’s always been this question of my background, my race, and what I stand for.
Winnie Harlow
I don’t want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn’t limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.
Kerry Washington
To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.
Lando Norris
There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to

There isn’t a religion on earth that isn’t damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race – women. They are all oppressors of women.
Susan Powter
A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.
Sally Kirkland
There’s no bigger thrill than beating the guy you’re not supposed to beat or winning a race you’re not supposed to win.
Kevin Harvick
The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.
John Piper
My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.
Brian K. Vaughan
I love what I do, and I’m lucky to have the opportunities I have to go race, and that’s all I can ask for.
Chase Elliott
I fight AIDS because it’s a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.
Kenneth Kaunda
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson Welles
It’s hard to say what role race really played in my case.
Jayson Blair
She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
Gilbert Parker
I welcome an arms race for minority ethnic voters. This will ensure we all raise our game.
Sadiq Khan
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan
This can not be about a race to the bottom.
Alexis Herman
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They’re human beings, so they have a right to life.
Peter Kreeft
I couldn’t disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn’t race again within another 10 days.
Roger Bannister
I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
Cathy Freeman
No matter what race or color you are, you can aspire to do something great.
Laurie Hernandez
Me, if I’m in a long-distance race, I have speed. In the sprint, I don’t have so much speed.
Rivaldo
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.
Ernie Harwell
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
David Icke
You can play basketball and have a magic night and score 40 points with your team-mates and win the game. There are favourites for the World Cup, but you can’t guarantee Germany, Spain, or Brazil will win, but here, everyone can guarantee that Mercedes or Ferrari will win the race, and this is very sad for the sport.
Fernando Alonso
A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn’t know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, ‘Just call my name to see where I am,’ because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Thomas Sowell
War itself is the enemy of the human race.
Howard Zinn
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
Mary McLeod Bethune
My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That’s where we have to go as a human race.
Abigail Washburn
I think the human race doesn’t have a future if it doesn’t go into space.
Stephen Hawking
Love, like poems, knows no boundaries. Religions, race, distance not even age can restrict someone from falling in love.
Shweta Basu Prasad
A robotic arms race seems inevitable unless nations collectively decide to avoid one.
Tom Malinowski
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Abraham Lincoln
We encrypt ‘Drag Race’ with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the ’80s.
RuPaul
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
Sandra Day O’Connor
Everyone has a budget, I don’t care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.
Dusty Baker
There’s this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Going back because it’s what I did and I was sort of all right at it is not a good reason to race the TT.
Guy Martin
I was nervous before races. Every race was not perfect… Every morning when I woke up the first words weren’t always, ‘Oh, I’m so excited.’
Caeleb Dressel
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
Andre Norton
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
Sri Aurobindo
For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.
Bob Inglis
We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don’t get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.
Bonnie Blair
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.
Terry Pratchett
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.
Nelson A. Miles
I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.
Lando Norris
I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael Jackson
It’s so wonderful that women continue to break down barriers and change societal expectations, but women still suffer discrimination for their gender, class, and race.
Sasheer Zamata
In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.
Tertullian
It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It’s not about one race anymore.
Antoine Fuqua
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
Alain Prost
We are making music for the human race, and even beings from other galaxies are welcome to vibe with us.
J Balvin
I find it incredibly annoying going to every race to finish seventh, or even fifth.
Carlos Sainz Jr.
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.
Joseph Rotblat
Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.
Tom Kristensen