"Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down."

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Source : Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

Francis James Grimke

#Race Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.”
“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.”
“When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.”
“Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.”
“Being funny is not the same as being happy.”
“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.”
“One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one”

Source : "Fictional character: Marcus Licinius Crassus". "Spartacus", 1960.
“I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.”

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