"... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages."

-- Sarah-Patton Boyle

#Struggle Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Blind Spots Quotes

“If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes anyone who wears a uniform. How dare you insult a soldier! Like its some sacred calling instead of an imperial employment program steeped in the culture of machismo and misogyny.(And you can gasp as theatrically as you want I spent more than two decades wearing a uniform that is exactly what it is.)”
“When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.”

Source : Song: The Long Arm of the Law, Album: Transverse City
“Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?”
“Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.”
“I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.”
“Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.”
“At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.”

Source : Richard Rorty (1999). “Philosophy and Social Hope”, ePenguin

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