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Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war — Bob Marley

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race. — Cameron Diaz

British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any — Charles Dickens

Maeve could have lost a race with a tree — Michael J. Sullivan

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin. — Rudyard Kipling

You can do anything you want in the United States of you wear a suit and tie...especially if you are white. That also helps. — Betty Medsger

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for very evil purposes. — Francis Lieber

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future. — Yoko Ono

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. — A.E. Samaan

Every time I race, I will race so fiercely my legs cry. — Jens Voigt

Hell! We don't need an infection to exterminate the human race - we'll do it ourselves! — Manel Loureiro

One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character? — Ernest Cline

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination. — Thylias Moss

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin. — Bess Truman

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity. — Max Brooks

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race. — Pope Francis

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom. — Laurence Stallings

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. — Dick Morris

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's — Harper Lee

Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden. — Brian Herbert

The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win — Seth Godin

For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized — Rod Serling

Such is the human race. Often it seems such a pity that Noah.. didn't miss the boat. — Mark Twain

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race. — Margaret Sanger

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools. — KRS-One

Books are the curse of the human race. — Benjamin Disraeli

We need to perceive ourselves as the special race.
If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen. — Toba Beta

Don't Tase Me Bro!
If I'm a cop, and I'm a brotha, and they let me have a taser? Sorry bro, I'm tasing you. — Larry Wilmore

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. — Frank Field

There is no real freedom for the man who is in so much of a hurry that he is annoyed by the human race and by the hot glaring afternoon sun. — William, Saroyan

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule]. — Thein Sein

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near. — Mahatma Gandhi

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. — Auguste Comte

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us. — Cornelius Eady

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time. — Ashley Montagu

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh. — Whitney Otto

Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race. — Herbert Spencer

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games. — Asafa Powell

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire. — Eric Hoffer

Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race? — Mark Twain

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards. — Alberto Salazar

I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think? — Kate Atkinson

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you. — Catherine Martin

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race. — Martin Lel

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. — Steve Prefontaine

Yeah, Mel! If she shoves you again, smack her in the face!" bellowed Mika.
Kira glared at Mika.
"I mean, beat her in the race! — Katie Mattie

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage — Mark Twain

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. — Fanny Burney

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned. — Marcus Garvey

Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Who is Dr. A. von Holstein? And is he related, by chance, to a race of cows? — Darynda Jones

Tolstoy carelessly neglects to include a boat race. — Mark Twain

The human race has improved everything, but the human race. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up. — Tamara L. Chilver

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. — Winston Churchill

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds. — Haile Gebrselassie

I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd. — Michael Phelps

This is about a race of people enslaved and made extinct. — Amy Ewing

He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body. — Baha'u'llah

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation. — Mahatma Gandhi

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, ... but to be with each other. — Christopher McDougall

If she were in a race for her life, that roar was the starter pistol. If God were the referee, He had just shouted Go. — Jim Butcher

Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue. — Shannon Celebi

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God. — Pat Buckley

Paradoxically, it is the uncommon event that may best demonstrate the common predicament of our race. — Thomas Ligotti

We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals. — Lonnie Bunch

Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races. — Tupac Shakur

If the enemy opens the door, you must race in. — Sun Tzu

The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The — Michael Crichton

Chasing your dreams is like running a race in the dark, you may quit disheartened, not knowing you were one step away from the finish line. — Prerna Kumar

It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people. — Thom Yorke

I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race. — Amber Heard

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. — John Milton

I was born to race and to win. — Lewis Hamilton

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees. — Daniel H. Wilson

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege. — Jonathan Coleman

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them. — Celia Green

The Indian race are waiting and praying. — Chief Joseph

As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like. — Sergio Perez

P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. — Honore De Balzac

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure. — Aunjanue Ellis

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

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. — Henry David Thoreau

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard. — Samuel George Morton

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not. — Ayrton Senna

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type. — Gertrude Atherton

I have to win races. It's not even an option. — Joey Logano

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin. — Tessanne Chin

If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%. — Arsene Wenger

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive. — Edward Brooke

Somewhere along the line, I'd developed a deep, burning dislike for the human race. There seemed to be no cure. — Adrianne Brooks

Who wants the humiliation of being father to the human race? — Steve Toltz