“I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.” WorldMindMadeNamesBlackWhiteRaceClaimsRaisesLabelsTake MeForeheadsInferiorityMustacheLynchingWhite RaceBlack Race Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
“The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.” BelieveWholeChallengesFoolDemandDiseaseEvidenceTreatsClaimsPatientAlternativesLabelsParadiseProtectedQuackery Author:Edzard Ernst
“He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.” IntellectualClaimsHumbleBreadLabelsExpertsSinnerArrogantPatriotVulgarElegantBoastPiousIncompetentInadequacyBenefactorsDaily BreadOur Daily Bread Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.” GivingNamesFiguresClaimsLaysPropertyFolksLabelsLoved Ones Book:Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey Source: Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey