Race

Famous quotes containing the word race:

    Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    ...I am an abolitionist for the sake of my own race—Contact with the African degenerates our white race—I find the association with them injurious to my child—keenly as I watch to prevent it & his faithful nurse to help me ... She is a good woman & so are many of them—Still the race is a degraded one ...
    Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–?)

    The whole race is a poet that writes down
    The eccentric propositions of its fate.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)