The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take their place on the shelf along with the belief in witches and the notion that the earth is the center of the solar system. Nobody knows as yet whether the future [of the race situation] is hopeless. All we know is that it can be made hopeless, if enough people choose to consider it so.
Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough… - Margaret Halsey
Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough…
- Margaret Halsey
The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it. - Margaret Halsey
The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had. - Margaret Halsey
Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.
I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not c… - Margaret Halsey
I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not c…
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them. - Margaret Halsey
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at al… - Margaret Halsey
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at al…
If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnifi… - Margaret Halsey
If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnifi…
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it. - Margaret Halsey
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting t… - Margaret Halsey
There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting t…
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