We must protect big business from domination by fat- minded men whose principal business policy is to avoid a competitive race for efficiency† They believe in a system of soft enterprise,ösoft in the way that an octopus is soft, with tentacles that stifle and suffocate.

-Arnold,ThurmanWesley
  'The  Abuse of Patents', in  Atlantic Monthly,  Jul.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 9:11

   Know ye not thatthey whichrun ina racerun all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 9:24.

Wherefore seeing we alsoare compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Hebrews12:1^2.

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

-Blake,William
  Letter to Thomas Butts,16  Aug.

Look at the Irish! Theyare the cleverest propagandists extant, and managed to persuade most people that they were a brave, generous, humorous, talented, warm- hearted race, cruelly yoked to a dull mercantile England, when,God knows, they were exactly the opposite.

-Buchan,John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir
  The Three Hostages.

Race prejudice isnot onlya shadowover the coloredöit is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

-Buck, Pearl ne¤  e Sydenstricker
  What  America Means To Me, ch.1.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for theindividual, it isbestfor therace, becauseit insures thesurvival ofthefittest ineverydepartment. Weaccept and welcome, therefore, as conditions towhichwe must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race.

-Carnegie, Andrew
  'The Gospel of  Wealth', in the North  American Review,  Jun.

A pert, prim Prater of the northern race, Guilt in his heart, and famine in his face.

-Churchill, Charles
  Of the Scottish-born judge  Alexander Wedderburn, later Lord Loughborough. The Rosciad, l.75^6.

A quiet, pilfering, unprotected race.

-Clare,John
  'The Gipsy Camp'.

In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift, The battle to the strong. See Bible101:85.

-Davidson,John
  'War Song', stanza1.

We have persuaded ourselves that Englishmen of the present dayare such a nervously excitable race, that the onlychancefor theirdescendants isto keep themothers in a state of coma. The fathers, we think are incurable.

-Davies, (Sarah) Emily
  Paper read at the  Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Sciences, published in Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women1860^1908.

Our colonel comes from Brian's race, His wounds are in his breast and face.

-Davis,Thomas Osborne
  The Spirit of the Nation,'Clare's Dragoons'.

The Jews, a headstrong, moody, murmuring race.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.45.

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.837.

To bea poor manishard, buttobe a poorraceina land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

-Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)
  The Souls of Black Folk, ch.1.

Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that isthefact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.

-Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)
Preface to reprint of  The Souls of Black Folk (1969).

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allöbut who is capable of that?

-Dudek, Louis
Collected in Notebooks1960^1994 (1994).

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

-Fisher, H(erbert) A(lbert) L(aurens)
  History of Europe, ch.1.

Land of our birth, we pledge to thee Our love and toil in the years to be; When we are grown and take our place, As men and women with our race.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Puck of Pook's Hill,'Children's Song'.