"There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies."

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Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.37, Vintage

Richard Hofstadter

#Struggle Quotes #Class Quotes #Hatred Quotes

“The wronged side is always the safest.”
“When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.”

Source : "Part 2: “Keeping Hope Alive” in Somalia with Hawa Abdi and Daughter Deqo Mohamed". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 16, 2013.
“Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.”
“Women come to me and would never tell a male guru the things that they tell me. to me and would never besiege the male guru with some of the things that I hear. And that is because mother is mother and that is the phenomenal thing, it's the most irreplaceable thing in the world because whether we're an earthly mother or a spiritual mother, a divine mother, and everyone is divine by the way, we all have the power of divinity, the power of full consciousness, whether we are awakened to the potential of it all is a different matter.”
“Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.”
“It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.”

Source : James Richardson (2016). “By the Numbers”, p.63, Copper Canyon Press
“It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.”
“Iâ€™m not the smartest guy in the world, but Iâ€™m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, Iâ€™ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think Iâ€™ve understood them. Theyâ€™re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cashâ€™s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.”

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