Race

Famous quotes containing the word race:

    “Why should a man desire in any way
    To vary from the kindly race of men,
    Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance
    Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Consider the value to the race of one-half of its members being enabled to throw aside the intolerable bondage of ignorance that has always weighed them down!”
    —Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)

    “For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)