White Minority Rule

Famous quotes containing the words white, minority and/or rule:

    “Yet love enters my blood like an I.V.,
    dripping in its little white moments.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.”
    —Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

    “Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.”
    —Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)