Horace Greeley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
-
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
-
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
-
Discrimination and bigotry have no place in our society, and I believe Senator (Rick) Santorum's unfortunate remarks undermine Republican principles of inclusion and opportunity.
-
It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.
-
Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
-
We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it.
-
I've never run a plantation before. I'm not even sure what kind of association she's trying to make. If she's trying to be racist, I think that's unfortunate.
-
You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.
-
You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.
-
This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way.
-
Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.
-
So for instance in rap music, you very often hear words that would seem very racist, or very misogynous or very homophobic but in some of those instances, the words are being taken back or redefined so that they lose their injurious quality.
-
If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.
-
The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.
-
The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.
-
White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way - and if they don't, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
-
I don't want you to look at my skin and think "white" or look at my heritage and think "Mexican." I want you to look at me and see me as a human being, and hopefully, we can get past all of this other stuff. It's asking a lot, of course, but there's only one way you fight extremists on both sides, whether it be racist or not, and that's by looking past me, getting bigger than that, letting them not affect you, drawing from it and sticking together with the like-minded people you have around you.
-
I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.
-
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
-
Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
-
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
