Richard Le Gallienne Quotes
Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.
Le Gallienne, Richard. Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915.
The attitude of the non-Muslims at that time was based on the Muslim attacks in the Punjab on Sikhs where entire Sikh villages and neighborhoods in towns and cities were murdered—every man woman and child. In many cases women were first raped. The Muslims had been whipped up by the leaders of the Muslim League to put terrorist pressure on the Sikh, Hindu and British to meet the League's political and territorial demands for an Independent Pakistan. Soon there was retaliation in kind and there were many Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims engaged in internecine slaughter and behaving "little better than animals".
See {401426} for more on his view of nationality and nationalism.
Wallace was a white, Jewish journalist who was interviewing African American Minister Louis Farrakhan , leader of the Black Muslims on 60 Minutes. Farrakhan's view about whites, his anti-Semitism and animosity toward journalists were on the record and not disguised. This opening of the interview caught Minister Farrakhan by surprise and even with his animosity, he could not help breaking out in a large grin at Wallace's audacity.
Richard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet. The British-American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter by his second marriage to Danish journalist Julie Nørregaard (1863–1942).
