Top 717 Race Quotes

I’m looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don’t matter to me. I want someone who’s qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.
Edward Brooke
I wouldn’t mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.
Al Unser
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
Antonin Scalia
I think we have the approach that every race is a sprint. Some races are just longer sprints than others.
Katie Ledecky
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow
Plodding wins the race.
Aesop
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
John Calvin
I’m a very goal-oriented person, so I look at the specific demands of a certain race and tailor my training towards that.
Lizzie Armitstead
I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
Dale Earnhardt
The strange proposition that black intellectuals – regardless of their training – are ‘race experts’ mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.
Carl Hart
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
Johann Georg Hamann
Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.
Charles Hamilton Houston
We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

We’re not separate races. There’s only one human race.
Alveda King
Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
Alice Walker
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Ovid
Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.
Michael Eric Dyson
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Bad luck never lost a race.
Mark Getty
Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers
I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
Steve Prefontaine
We need not worry so much about what man descends from – it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.
Hal Boyle
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
Peter Shaffer
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman
It was five years since I’d won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
Damon Hill
I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.
Lando Norris
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Marcus Garvey
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that’s what I’m like, but it’s great for me ‘cos they’re always the most interesting characters.
Stephen Graham
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Elie Wiesel
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
Mary McLeod Bethune
If you want to know what being Canadian is, it’s being part of the human race, allowing yourself to be vulnerable, which has been scared off, warded away, girded against.
Gord Downie
To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there’s a mix of excitement and fear. If it’s a wet track, then it’s worse as you’re not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.
Jenson Button
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Gough Whitlam
I’d be a race car driver. I love fast cars.
D’Angelo Russell
I’ve always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
Paul Walker
The state exists to serve and protect every citizen, regardless of colour, creed, race or religion – and the welfare state should exist to and protect the populace in the same non-discriminatory and universal manner.
Mehdi Hasan
I’m a proud New Zealander, and I represent Paralympics New Zealand. I love what I do, and I do it because I love it. The passion is unbelievable in every race I do. I have the ambition to change things outside the pool, too.
Sophie Pascoe
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
Branch Rickey
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Don Marquis
I don’t play no one else’s game and I don’t run no one else’s race because if I did that, I wouldn’t be who I am.
Roddy Ricch
We can do much to help our communities loosen their boundaries and begin to welcome a multitude of ways of being to make sure that individuals of mixed race, religion, or ethnicities don’t feel the need to choose one or the other but see their layers as a gift, something that adds beauty.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
Lady Gaga
My first memory of motor racing - I think it was just a

My first memory of motor racing – I think it was just attending a go kart race.
Max Verstappen
If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that’s more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn’t say I’m African American, but I would say I’m black, and there’s a difference in those terms.
Rachel Dolezal
For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it’s a complete physical expression of freedom.
Robert Redford
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity – or political ideology.
Monica Crowley
You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome – just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
Adam Weishaupt
Like a race car you can’t put in regular gas. That’s what food is: your fuel.
Tony Gonzalez
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William E. Gladstone
Hospitality knows no gender or race.
Danny Meyer
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
David Icke
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman
It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear – usually justified – the other side would beat them to a pulp.
Pat Sajak
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
Marcus Garvey
You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.
Vivienne Westwood
The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
Michael Palin
Can I just tell you, I think it’s the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don’t really recognize race the way my generation does.
Viola Davis
Actors are a race.
Mads Mikkelsen
Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.
Marcus Garvey
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Walter Scott
I don’t think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
Magdalena Neuner
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word ‘Arya,’ meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
Bayard Taylor
How can our industry better represent the reality of our larger community and provide our next generation a proper example of what they see around them every single day? This representation should also look beyond race and include those of all body types, religion, sexuality, and gender identification.
Adwoa Aboah