#blacks

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#blacksmith #clothing #humor #war #humor

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#blacks #bottom #class #institute #massachusetts

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#brought #continue #economic #economic life #into

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. ↗

— August Wilson

#blacks #custodians #experience #had #operate

The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on. ↗

— Michael Huffington

#forth #gays #hispanics #lincoln #out

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#blacks #bring #chairs #change #coming

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#battle #blacks #changed #civil #civil rights

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. ↗

— Andrea Mitchell

#apply #blacks #came #civil #civil rights

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family. ↗

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

#american values #around #better #better place #blacks

Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#been #blacks #book #careers #dogs