Quote by Susan Sontag
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. – Susan Sontag

Other quotes by Susan Sontag

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. – Susan Sontag

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Fantasy
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. – Susan Sontag

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Beauty
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. – Susan Sontag

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Psychology
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Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty. – Robert Casey

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Feminism is just about equality, really, and theres so much stuff attached to the word, when its actually so simple. I dont know why its always so bogged down. – Mia Wasikowska

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Equality

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. – Honore de Balzac

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Equality

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a womans equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Seneca

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Thug Life to me is dead. – Tupac Shakur

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Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because were so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important. – Dean Kamen

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