Quotes of: Races Keyword

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Eva Figes

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Ernie Harwell

You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different.

George Orwell

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

J. Philippe Rushton

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

Jamaica Kincaid

Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.

Allyson Felix

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America

The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they’ll finish last. You don’t win the race by walking around the starting line saying ‘I’m not going to win this race’.

Eternity's Reach

A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man.” -Nellie Bly

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.” -Elizabeth Bisland

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

Asked who attacked America on 9/11, [Sarah Palin] suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussein.

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

The first move was to turn to the one great, perfectly visible and certified revolution in the recent history of the human race [the Google search-engine].

Bringing It All Back Home

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.

To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting? You've got to have friends out there. You can't do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.

Mario Andretti

I believe that people were not so allergic to their environment until they began polluting themselves and their world with so many drugs and toxins.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

You’re scaring the dog,” Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in prisoner of war camps, I’ve heard. Depersonalization.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege

I am sure that God has given all his time in making you, the remaining human race has been created in haste.

I Love You Too

Doing mistakes is as much a part of life as avoiding them. You may not get a second chance to do the same mistake, so, go on, give it a shot.

From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom