Race Quotes

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayna

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermon and sayings compilation)

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao Tzu

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

Shelley

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Mark Twain

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer, The Odyssey

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Cicero

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

Alan Simpson

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

Andrew Carnegie

Slow and steady wins the race.

Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

H. L. Mencken

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal; it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

John Dalberg

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Sir Winston Churchill

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Richard Burton

May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us.

Wystan Hugh Auden

For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.

Joseph Conrad

Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper.

Martin Luthe

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Walter Lippmann

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.

Saint Augustine

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ethel Barrymore

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.

Mark L. Mika

If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR.

Golda Mei

And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.

Native American Praye

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

Juvenal

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Josh Billings

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Tom Lehre

The haves and have nots can be traced back to the dids and did nots.

Anthony Klco

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.

George Aiken

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire