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"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"
"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."
"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"
"Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans are organized. I believe with George Schuyler that the only really feasible way to improve the general situation of the American Negro is to convince more and more whites that he is, as men go in this world, a decent fellow, and that amicable living with him is not only possible but desirable. Every threat of mass political pressure, every appeal to political mountebanks, only alarms the white brother, and so postpones the day of reasonable justice."
"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."
Explore more quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson
"I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way."
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."
"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."
"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."
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