"We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the American mind, maybe unique in the world. Once we realized how victimized people of color had been, an honest empathy went out and that's how we got civil rights legislation."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Jerome Kagan

#Unique Quotes #People Quotes #Profound Quotes

“If you're straight, if you're gay - hey, if you're a horse - and I appeal to you, great!”
“...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.”
“When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.”
“So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.”
“When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian, and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill -- whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains quite simply, a great man.”

Source : 1970 Political History, ch.2.
“I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.”

Source : "You're Welcome" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. April 16, 2012.
“We haven't any and you're too young.”
“I think that every man is afraid of his wife.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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