Albert Murray > Quotes

“In the context of a national dialogue, perhaps the only authorization required for “putting in your little two cents worth” is the constitutional provision for free speech. Moreover, the basis for the presumptions of dissent and counter-statement is the same as for popping off: the merest hint or suspicion that outrage is being committed against one’s conception of actuality.”
― Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

“American culture, even in its most rigidly segregated precincts, is patently and irrevocably composite …the so-called black and so-called white people of the United States resemble nobody else in the world so much as they resemble each other.”
― Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

“Indeed, for all their traditional antagonisms and obvious differences, the so-called black and so-called white people of the United States resemble nobody else in the world so much as they resemble each other.”
― Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

“a major charge of the argument advanced here is that most social science survey findings are not scientific enough. They violate one’s common everyday breeze-tasting sense of life precisely because they do not meet the standards of validity, reliability, and comprehensiveness that the best scientists have always insisted on”
― Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

“For my wife, Mozelle, who, honeysuckle-fairytale downhome girl that she is, was, as the old folks used to say, born knowing.”
― Albert Murray, South to a Very Old Place

“the present domestic conflict and upheaval grows out of the fact that in spite of their common destiny and deeper interests, the people of the United States are being misled by misinformation to insist on exaggerating their ethnic differences”
― Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

“Ethnic differences are the very essence of cultural diversity and national creativity.”
― Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

“administration involvement with the moral clichés of internationalism (derived from liberal and radical ideas of the nineteen thirties) is probably as great a source of current confusion as anything else”
― Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

“the present domestic conflict and upheaval grows out of the fact that in spite of their common destiny and deeper interests, the people of the United States are being misled by misinformation to insist on exaggerating their ethnic differences.”
― Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

“Nor was his point that the meek shall inherit the earth. His point was that no man could inherit the earth, that the only thing worth inheriting is humanity.”
― Albert Murray, South to a Very Old Place