Wendell Pierce Quotes

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

I run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it and realize what's happening in the bigger picture.

The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

I think any stereotyping is too much.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Perhaps the society has been too quick to understand and too slow to condemn.

The antiquity of an abuse is no justification for its continuance.

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values that we hold.