E. Franklin Frazier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
-- E. Franklin Frazier

#Inspiration #Past #Littles
America faces a new race that has awakened.
-- E. Franklin Frazier

#Race #America #Faces
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
-- E. Franklin Frazier

#Educational #Church #Walks
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
-- E. Franklin Frazier

#Boxes #Ballots
The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.
-- E. Franklin Frazier

#Hate #Believe #Self

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute
I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

E. Franklin Frazier famous quotes

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