Meyer

Famous quotes containing the word meyer:

    ... many American Jews have a morbid tendency to exaggerate their handicaps and difficulties. ... There is no doubt that the Jew ... has to be twice as good as the average non- Jew to succeed in many a field of endeavor. But to dwell upon these injustices to the point of self-pity is to weaken the personality unnecessarily. Every human being has handicaps of one sort or another. The brave individual accepts them and by accepting conquers them.
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    If Americans could understand what a painful, searing experience it is when Negro children first begin to realize that the mere color of their skin is to be the source of a lifelong discrimination, it might do more to end our cruelty toward the Negro than all the preaching on justice and equality.
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

    The world is not merely the world. It is our world. It is not merely an industrial world. It is, above all things, a human world.
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)