Famous Quotes

"Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics."

Alex Haley on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Alex Haley

• "In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."

• "When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth."

• "In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."

• "My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall."