Race Quotes

Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.

Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

I don’t want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn’t say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we’re not living up to it.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.

You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.

What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal?