Inferiors Quotes - Page 21

• We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

  Paule Marshall

  Running, White Privilege, Light

  Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.79, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by starting MX missile deployment, then the Soviet Union will respond by deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile of the same class, with its characteristics in no way inferior to those of the MX.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  Running, Class, White

  "The Arms Control Reporter: A Chronicle of Treaties, Negotiations, Proposals" by Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (U.S.), (p. 57), 1982.

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• [Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.

  Cheris Kramarae

  Men, Views, Definitions

  Cheris Kramarae (1992). “Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary”, Pandora Press

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• Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?

  Maria W. Stewart

  God, Freedom, Equality

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• Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.

  Madonna Kolbenschlag

  Industrialization, Significant, Castes

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• I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA. It is an extension of that legacy, and that's not going to start to diminish until black people have a new sense of themselves that isn't tied to slavery and feeling inferior. I think the church can be instrumental in that, in terms of repentance, reconciliation and just being more embracing of each other - not just on Sunday, but in life generally.

  David Oyelowo

  Believe, Sunday, Men

  Source: decentfilms.com

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• Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness and inferior mentality, could have but one general result throughout Christendom.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Sex, Atheism, Age

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• Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Sex, Long, Literature

  Lillie Devereux Blake (1874). “Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day”, p.254

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• People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is an obvious example. But so is British imperialism, which was not grubby self-interest all the way down, but at least in part a sincere attempt on the part of people who felt they were superior to other people to magnanimously improve the lot of their inferiors.

  Dale Jamieson

  Country, Self, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?

  Tenzin Palmo

  Differences, Century, Buddha Nature

  Source: fpmt.org

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• The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

  Joseph Heller

  Writing, Media, People

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• Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rome, Two, Church

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2506, Delphi Classics

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• I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Men, Felt

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• Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

  Rachel Carson

  Vision, Demand, Accepting

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.

  Jules Ferry

  Race, Duty, Colony

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• Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

  Louise Slaughter

  Men, Rights, Ideas

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• We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they're not like him. Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space, crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities. My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency.

  Alan Lomax

  Crush, Powerful, Space

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• When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

  Susie Orbach

  Girl, Years, Tvs

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• Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

  Herbert Stein

  Modern Life, Patient, Psychiatrist

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• The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Taken, Rights

  "Fictional character: Garbitsch". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Science, Sunshine

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.140, David M Gross

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• Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Feelings, Arrogance, Justified

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• I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Race, Racism, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.386

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• The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

  Virginia Woolf

  Opposites, Differences, Judging

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3815, Delphi Classics

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• It seemed to be a fundamental thing that women have something men don't, the obvious being an ability to bear children, and the resilience to hang in as parents. I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of "women are inferior".

  Joss Whedon

  Children, Men, Ideas

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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