Margaret Halsey Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

• The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

  Margaret Halsey

  Vanity, Race, Hands

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

• you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Boys, White

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”

• in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Long, Racism

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

• One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Racism, People

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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