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 More Quotes by Margaret Halsey More Quotes From Margaret Halsey This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth. Margaret Halsey nextyearsideas A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man. Margaret Halsey visionmaymen being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level. Margaret Halsey levelsfeelingsclass Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me. Margaret Halsey mythridiculouspeople Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government. Margaret Halsey governmentsportsnight the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation. Margaret Halsey ashesqualitygovernment the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part. Margaret Halsey rolesactorskindness If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence. Margaret Halsey magnificencebrotherhood-of-manmen 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 come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it. Margaret Halsey whitemenlying The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures. Margaret Halsey prejudicelongpeople Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone. Margaret Halsey scrutinyprejudicepeople The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded? Margaret Halsey charactermenblood The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced. Margaret Halsey selfchallengespeople The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes. Margaret Halsey atmosphereemotionalpeople 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. Margaret Halsey realracewhite ... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified. Margaret Halsey likesgivingtwo Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise. Margaret Halsey exerciseboysthinking ... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite. Margaret Halsey giving-upalcoholself Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had. Margaret Halsey growthdoepeople A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased. Margaret Halsey cleanersbeltsmissing
