The Race

Famous quotes containing the word race:

“This is my father or, maybe,
It is as he was,

A likeness, one of the race of fathers: earth
And sea and air.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)