Race

Famous quotes containing the word race:

“Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it, and had his being there. Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“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)