Top 1200 Race In America Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplated America and its place in the world, casting his eye on big subjects - Vietnam, global economics, race, mass media, and the 1950s.

I just have to take it race by race, focus on what you can do, and the rest is out of your control.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

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

The good is where American dream is alive and kicking. You can be any race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation - it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from. If you have a talent and you have a passion and you're prepared to work hard, you can be anything you want to be. That's what I like about being in America.

White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea of race.

If you enter a race and finish last, you are a winner. The loser never entered the race.

America has value-based leadership. America is valued - America is followed by other nations, including my own nation, because it's based on the values that America has to offer to the rest of the world - freedom, freedom of choice, democracy, open market.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

I race pushbikes more than I race motorbikes, but it's not the same.

America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

You could think about Vietnam and at some point in time about Nigeria. And then you head to South America: Argentina, Columbia, Peru. Probably not all of them will have an F1 race, but they are definitely considering events.

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white racism has lost its legitimacy in the world and become an almost universal disgrace.

In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.

To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

People approach people of color with preconceived ideas. I don't think this is just restricted to white people, but I think that lots of black and white artists, when race is a subject matter, they put race or the ideology around race first. They don't see the person and the complications of the human being.

In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

If I only had one day left in my life and it was riding a race or owning the Gold Cup winner, I'd ride a race.

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

In a stage race, you can have bad luck or make a mistake, and it's not the end of the race. You have more opportunities.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

Racist societies enforce the idea of race as home by making race an inescapable fate.

There's one race on this planet. It's called the human race. We're all the same. To me, there is absolutely nothing that has color to do with it.

To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.

The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

My approach to the race is definitely just trying to win the race.

As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for.

It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.

The whole world depends on America ultimately, particularly Britain. And also, I love America - a marvelous country. But in a sense I don't worry about America because I think America has such huge strengths - particularly its freedom of thought and expression - that it's going to survive as a top nation for the foreseeable future.

Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you.

When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their race and religious beliefs, and when violent enforcement of Jim Crow masqueraded as the will of the people.

In Barack Obama, we have a great education president who is rebuilding America. His Race to the Top program is doing more to 'spur us' to improve our public schools than anything we've ever done as a nation.

In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're also supposed to be able to write characters and scenes in a way where it's just a matter of fact, a component.

The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.

Race and class reinforce one another in housing. Our America Divided story, "A House Divided," shows that racist discrimination in housing is alive and well in the Big Apple.

Politics is like a running race and a true champion will run the race with the competitors and emerge victoriously.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.

The marathon never ceases to be a race of joy, a race of wonder.

I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism.

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

Where race is concerned, America has had a horrible, a wretched history and that came to account in the 1960s, with the Civil Rights victories and Civil Rights Bill and housing and so forth.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

I'M HOPEFUL, because I know that while we still have race issues in America, we enjoy a much different normal than those of our parents and grandparents. I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it's a beautiful thing.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.