Top 717 Race Quotes

When you’re in a race car, you’re going through so many different emotions throughout that race.
Jeff Gordon
Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
C. S. Lewis
I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.
Tom Brokaw
It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
Maya Angelou
I won a silver medal. But really, I ended up running the fastest race of my life to become part of something that transcended the Games.
Peter Norman
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Pearl S. Buck
‘Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
Trixie Mattel
In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
Walter Lang
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
Ellsworth Huntington
I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.
Ryan Lochte
Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our ‘personal assistant.’ They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.
Franklin Foer
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We’re in a race against time, until we run out of money.
Jack Nicholson
I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.
Amber Heard
I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway – I was playing a NASCAR race – and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, ‘I want to write a song called ‘Wanna Be That Song.’ Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.
Brett Eldredge
‘Separate but unequal’ didn’t work in respect to race, it doesn’t work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn’t work when looking at the intersection of race and gender.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Soviet mathematics was particularly good in the second half of the 20th century, basically because of the arms race, because the Soviet Union realized… World War II created the conditions for the Soviet Union to become a superpower.
Masha Gessen
It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don’t. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color ‘criminals’ and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.
Michelle Alexander
The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
Arnold J. Toynbee
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
Carter G. Woodson
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
Bill Rodgers
The future peopling of Mars is much more than a scientific endeavor. It is a step of historic and spiritual importance for the human race.
David Grinspoon
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are so many things in life that divide us, that separate us and tear us apart, be it race, religion, creed, socioeconomic level, nationality or any variety of other factors. But running is something that we all share in common.
Dean Karnazes
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
Ralph Chaplin
If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy – it doesn’t have to be about race, it could be about anything… you will find that you both have something in common. As you build upon those commonalities, you’re forming a relationship and as you build about that relationship, you’re forming a friendship.
Daryl Davis
I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
Benjamin Banneker
If I want to go to Europe and get thrashed by the Europeans, that’s my business. Every race I lose I learn from and get tougher.
Steve Prefontaine
In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there’s a presidential race or governor’s race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
Baron Hill
The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill
It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.
Christopher Dawson
The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
Dale Earnhardt
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.
Leon Bourgeois
Americans understand that rising drug prices, wage stagnation and inadequate infrastructure affect everyone, regardless of race.
Ted Lieu
These race cars are dangerous and you don’t put someone in one unless you are 100 per cent certain that they can do what they need to do and be safe in the car.
Susie Wolff
Fundamentally, mankind was unimportant in the ecological system. Then, in one fell swoop, an evolutionary blink of an eye, the human race is transformed from something unimportant to the most important thing in the world.
Yuval Noah Harari
Many of us in the jockeys’ room are wasting to ride many pounds below our natural weight, but all the while you are doing that, you also want to ensure that you are as strong as possible so that you can give your mount every possible chance in a race.
Tony McCoy
Kiwis, we love a good one out. We love a good fight. This is part of the culture. Straight up. We’re a country of a warrior race, the Maori.
Israel Adesanya
That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
Alain Prost
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill
This is my experience on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race:’ three square meals a day, a challenge and put to bed by 9:30 P. M. Honey it doesn’t get any better than that.
Chad Michaels
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines.

You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I’m present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else’s hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.
Akshay Kumar
5G will come. We can debate when in certain parts of the world. But it’s quite clear that the race is heating up in North America and Northeast Asia.
Borje Ekholm
‘An Octoroon’ was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I’m writing about America’s relationship to its own history. Race or not, it’s a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.
Ellen Key
It was a pretty wild ride. The race wasn’t bad, but qualifying would take your breath.
Sterling Marlin
I’m not saying that every time I race I go to the very limit of my strength. But when the opportunity appears I consider it immoral not to take them.
Eddy Merckx
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
Catharine Beecher
We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.
Judge Mills Lane
If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.
Kevin J. Anderson
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Ayrton Senna
We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.
Cyril Ramaphosa
I wanted to be a race car driver when I was a kid.
Alfie Allen
I’m very, very competitive. If my grandmother asks to race me down the street, I’m going to try to beat her. And I’ll probably enjoy it!
Derek Jeter