Quotes by Class To become a world-class university takes a lot of time. There are simply no shortcuts. People tend to assume, and I have encountered this sort of thinking all over the world, that if they just sink enough money into a university, it will emerge in a few years as a first-class institution. But such rapid growth never happens. It takes time; it takes generations. Henry Rosovsky classyearsthinking We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about. Henry Louis Gates raceclassthinking If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. Henri Frederic Amiel passionignoranceclass That said, there are a few clear factors that determine the potential of a university to reach the highest levels of excellence. In the case of Harvard University, it was true that by the time of its tercentenary (300th anniversary of its founding) in 1936, Harvard had already achieved a reputation as a world-class institution. Harvard did not have the stature that it does today. Henry Rosovsky excellenceclassworld I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class. Henry Rosovsky ministrytaughtclass In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence. Henry Louis Gates blackcommunityclass The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. Henry Louis Gates dysfunctionclassopportunity It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. Henry Louis Gates whiteclassthinking When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit. Henry Thomas Buckle benefitsintellectualclass Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large. Henry Louis Gates blackcommunityclass Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism that creates the foundation for sapping democracy of any political substance and moral vitality. The predominance of the disimagination machine in American society, along with its machinery of social death and historical amnesia, seeps into in all aspects of life, suggesting that young people and others marginalized by class, race and ethnicity have been abandoned. Henry Giroux ethnicityraceclass Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same. Henry Louis Gates kingsclasschildren Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out. Henry Miller waitingclassmen The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible. Henryk Sienkiewicz effortunderstandingclass The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere. Henry Louis Gates selfclassthinking Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. Henry James ninety-nineclassmen Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture. Herbert Gutman mass-cultureeightclass Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are going to make America live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." They produced one of the world's great cultures; they produced individuals who were just as brilliant and made contributions to the world civilization. In fact, they produced a world-class civilization, the African American civilization, in music, in dance, in oratory, in religion, in writing. Henry Louis Gates writingclasscivilization At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the freshman class did better Frederick Lenz psychicsclassyears Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation. Herbert Croly soilcreationclass«7879808182838485868788»
