When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
Looks like a pretty serious race unfolding.
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
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.