"I was profoundly embarrassed by it (the White Australia Policy) and did all I could to change it."

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Source : "100 Years: The Australian Story". Book by Paul Kelly (p. 196), 2001.

Gough Whitlam

#Memorable Quotes #White Quotes #Australia Quotes

“Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.”
“Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.”
“I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.”
“I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.”
“There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent”

Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1932). “The Problem Parent”
“The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposites.”
“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.”

Source : "Afropolitan Author Talks Fractured Family Ties in ‘Ghana Must Go’". Interview with Patrice Peck, www.ebony.com. May 2, 2013.
“Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”

Source : Mary Zimmerman, David R. Slavitt (2002). “Metamorphoses: A Play”, p.83, Northwestern University Press

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