Quotes About Division

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

suburbs were turned into class-conscious fortresses.

Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." We are a country that imagines

We cling to the comfort of a middle class, forgetting that there can't be a middle class without a lower.

No social movement has ever progressed without emphasizing division, and doing that means stirring up hate.

In the beginning, therefore, the most important work is of separation. It is of pulling apart the tangled threads. It is of saying "This shall be separate from that. This shall be water, this shall be sky, and this shall be the line between them, the horizon." It is of setting a line between them.

The committee was divided, but it was divided 8–1, with the dissenter appointed by the Reagan White House.

We, the women, who rule thatif you make a scholar out of your wife, you will need another wife to do the daily chores.

Entire wars have been based on our inability to see.

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.

If you didn't have someone to hate, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself, would you?

You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

All the political name-calling and putting blame on immigrants.

Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

When I burn please bury me deep Somewhere on West Division Street Put a bottle beneat' my head 'n a bottle beneat' my feet

The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.

The mechanical clock changed the way we saw ourselves. And like the map, it changed the way we thought. Once the clock had redefined time as a series of units of equal duration, our minds began to stress the methodical mental work of division and measurement.

Even the most apparently simple statement is subject to fission or fissure.

I, Rahotep, youngest chief detective of the Thebes Medjay division,

Alle Welt ist heute links. Welche Erleichterung!

D]emanding wages for housework (…) forced recognition of the fact that the domestic work which women do has economic value. But many feminists feel that this demand leaves untouched the sexual division of labour - indeed, measures like paid maternity leave (…) can be seen as a form of'wages for motherhood' but(…) it fixes women more rigidly into work defined as 'women's work'.

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.