“The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
― Lincoln Letters
― Lincoln Letters
“Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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“An SDS radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words the cause - whether inner city blacks or women - is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution.”
― Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model
― Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model
“I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
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