Society

"In this country “American” means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate."              - Toni Morrison ...

"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much." - Walter Lippmann ...

"The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another."          - Quentin Crisp ...

"Nowadays, the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity — as long as you don’t point out that people are different." - Colin Quinn ...

"There is not only a physical deafness which largely cuts people off from social life; there is also a "hardness of hearing" where God is concerned." - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI ...

"A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." - Adlai Stevenson ...

"The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized ...

“…tragedy has been, and will always be with us. Somewhere right now, evil people are planning evil things. All of us will do everything meaningful; everything we can do to prevent it, but each horrible act can't become an ax ...

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."                  - Chief Seattle ...

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift ...