Race Quotations | Page 8

Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.

Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.