Group Reputation Quotes

The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts.

You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and well behaved. You were also not supposed to tell any stories that reflected badly on the group because that reflected badly on the race. I use past tense, but it still feels like present tense.

I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.

I'm very protective of the image of the Seekers after all these years.

I think that whenever a Jew has any kind of notoriety, good or bad, the Jews find it to be good.

At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.