Race Quotes - Page 158

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

The beautiful thing about having grown up in Brooklyn is, because of the rich cultural and racial diversity there, no one seemed to give too much thought to where I fit on the racial spectrum. But there were times when I would run up against someone who was interested in figuring out what race was. That would come as a surprise, and in some cases, like a slap in the face.

The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.

Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.