Josephine Lawrence Quotes

• Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

  Josephine Lawrence

  Children, Thinking, Done

  Josephine Lawrence (1944). “A tower of steel”

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• Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.

  Josephine Lawrence

  Fear

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• I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.

  Josephine Lawrence

  Kindness, Believe, Names

  Josephine Lawrence (1945). “Let Us Consider One Another”, New York ; London : . Appleton-Century

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• You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

  Josephine Lawrence

  Theory, Happens

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• Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

  Josephine Lawrence

  Powerful, Dark, Fighting

  Josephine Lawrence (1945). “Let Us Consider One Another”, New York ; London : . Appleton-Century

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• Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

  Josephine Lawrence

  Real, Separation, Absence

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• if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

  Josephine Lawrence

  Hate, Racism, Pet

  Josephine Lawrence (1945). “Let Us Consider One Another”, New York ; London : . Appleton-Century

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• Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

  Josephine Lawrence

  War, Differences, Racism

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• At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

  Josephine Lawrence

  New Experiences, Firsts, Trouble

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