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Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more colorful garments, more fancifully decorated vehicles, a wonderful sense of rhythm, and charm, charm, charm; unambitious, no, lazy, ignorant, superstitious, uninhibited people, never on time, conspicuously poorer (how could it be otherwise, say the northerners); who for all their poverty and squalor lead enviable lives -- envied, that is, by work-driven, sensually inhibted, less corruptly governed northerners. We are superior to them, say the northerners, clearly superior. We do not shirk our duties or tell lies as a matter of course, we work hard, we are punctual, we keep reliable accounts. But they have more fun than we do ... They caution[ed] themselves as people do who know they are part of a superior culture: we mustn't let ourselves go, mustn't descend to the level of the ... jungle, street, bush, bog, hills, outback (take your pick). For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it -- then you know. The south has got you.


Susan Sontag


#culture #north #north-and-south #northerners #perceptions

A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true.


Ron DeLegge II


#prejudices #racism #stereotypes #racism

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.


David Ray Griffin


#self-empowerment #self-empowerment

The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.


Damon Meredith


#coward #cowardice #government #leaders #leadership

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.


George Bancroft


#blindly #easily #first #ignorance #interest

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.


John Barton


#blind #disregard #good #how #inappropriate

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.


Mark Twain


#fluid #ink #merely #prejudice #very

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.


Mark Twain


#cowardice #good #protections #several #surest

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.


Jean Baudrillard


#courage #cowardice #feelings #love #measure

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.


Henry Ward Beecher


#dice #equivalent #gambling #getting #getting money