Race Quotes - Page 23

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.

We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.

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.

God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer the top yourself.