"... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way."

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Source : Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.102, Pickle Partners Publishing

Sarah-Patton Boyle

#Attitude Quotes #Color Quotes #White Quotes

“Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the New York Times, the British monarchy now exists primarily 'for our amusement'. But as long as people find it amusing, and want to be amused by it, they will be happy to see it undermined but uneager to kill it off.”

Source : David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA
“National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.”
“Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.”
“When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.”
“Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things, and He always does so when He takes away the means of doing otherwise.”
“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”
“Life is love and love is life.”
“Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.”

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