"Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer."

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Source : Andrew Hacker (2010). “Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

Andrew Hacker

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“She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.”
“To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.”
“I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.”
“What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?”
“Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.”
“The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.”
“I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.”
“If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.”

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