"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

Elizabeth George, American Author

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."

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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

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"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

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"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."

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"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

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"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

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"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."

"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."

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"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."