Condescension Presupposes Quotes by Josephine Lawrence

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their…

— Josephine Lawrence

I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do…

— Josephine Lawrence

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

— Josephine Lawrence

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

— Josephine Lawrence

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

— Josephine Lawrence

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

— Josephine Lawrence

Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.

— Josephine Lawrence

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

— Josephine Lawrence

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

— Josephine Lawrence