Race Quotes - Page 86

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures.

Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration. They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.

Embrace your dreams and advance as far as they can take you.

Here Hillary Clinton is probably the most qualified person based on experience to ever run for president of the United States, and then this guy gets into the race, Bernie Sanders, and suddenly everybody goes, "Look at him. He's a real contender - "

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven

The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to do that for me which I should do for myself. Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort

As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.

I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we're not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We're all Americans.

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.

The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

Through surrender the aspirant's ego is effaced, and . . . grace . . . pours down upon him like a torrential rain.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

The Klan sees the world in terms of race and ethnicity. So do Liberals

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it

Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God’s grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.