Quotes on Race

Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.

We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family

Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

Race designation is a political designation.

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

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

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

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

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.

The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.

The only race I know is the human one.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '

In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run.

It doesn't matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just see it right away.