"They hate because they fear, and they fear……" — Richard Wright
"They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces."
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38 Quotes by Richard Wright
Richard Wright has 38 quotes on this site.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather…
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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a…
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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression…
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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things…
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't.…
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up…
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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was…
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive…
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied…
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More Assaulted Quotes
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one of 41 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly…
— Bob Beauprez
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Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked…
— A. Whitney Brown
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For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold…
— George Downame
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To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have…
— Barack Obama
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I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
— Patti Smith
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The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such…
— Abe Burrows
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The Christian soldier must avoid two evils - he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and…
— George Downame
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Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women…
— Rosa DeLauro
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In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep…
— Jamake Highwater
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I assaulted Stone Cold Steve Austin and got away with it! It was indeed a very special night for me...
— Vince McMahon
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Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless…
— Jack Kornfield
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The media character-assassinated me and perceived me as this monster. When you look at my record ... I jumped a…
— Willie Mason
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