Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
I travel to Chicago a lot. And I've followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an exceptional candidate who was able to transcend ethnic and racial lines.
Dreyfus: [Last lines as he clutches a detonator] I'm saving the human race [triggers an explosion]
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.
Life is a race for those who want success and journey for those who want to live their dreams.
We're involved in racing because there's that element of competition. But there's that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.
