Antagonism

Famous quotes containing the word antagonism:

“As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

“There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.”
—Carol Moseley-Braun (b. 1947)