Category Archives: SOCIETY
The inspiration photos…
From our first meeting at Source, these photos launched the discussions that led to the piece…
Quotes related to Nacirema, immigration, identity, etc.
~ Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. ~ Jack Paar
~ Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists. ~ FDR
~ Our true nationality is mankind. ~ H G Wells
~ A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common fear of its neighbors. ~ WR Ing
~ We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race. ~ Cicero
~ The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. ~ Saul Alinsky
~ As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ~ Eric Hobsbawm
~ Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
~ I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men. ~ J William Fulbright
Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else?
~ Budd Schulberg