Quotes of Integration - somelinesforyou

“ The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. ”

- William Greider

“ Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. ”

- James Baldwin

“ We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society. ”

- Malcolm X

“ Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ”

- Carl Sandburg

“ There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish. ”

- Mary Parker Follett

“ Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference, … a oneness and integration of the two opposing forces. Then the civil war is finished, and your energies are ready for your struggle with the world. ”

- Frederick Salomon Perls

“ The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is — a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment. ”

- Claude Levi Strauss

“ The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporfic to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken whites. ”

- Steve Biko
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