quotes on racism

When you possess light within, you see it externally. ~Anais Nin



The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ~Confucius



The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley



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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ~Jack Lemmon



Hope is grief's best music. ~Author Unknown



I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe. ~William O. Douglas, Go East, Young Man, 1974



A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. ~John Tudor



The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ~Thomas Jefferson



Opposites are cures for opposites. ~Hippocrates



Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. ~Quentin Crisp



Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason



Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ~Gene Fowler



Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds. ~George Jean Nathan



I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place. ~Debbie Peterson



The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. ~Madeleine L'Engle



Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. ~Erik Pepke



Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ~Barack Obama, 2008 Feb 05, Chicago, Illinois



My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot. ~Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, 1978



I think the world is run by C students. ~Al McGuire