Society

"I think it’s helpful to remind white ethnics that they, too, came here in boats; that they, too, lived in slums; that they, too, had yellow fever; that they, too, were stigmatized as incorrigible; that they, too, had the highest ...

"In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops." - Paul Brooks ...

"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 ...

"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 ...

"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 ...