Carolina QuotesBut I found something else as well, and it took a considerable amount of time before I was able to fully understand it's import. What I found most puzzling was that the monsters of terra incognita, upon closer examination, were not really monsters at all. They held political views which were repugnant, and religious views based on fantastically eccentric interpretations of sacred text. But whatever their belief structure, these were not monsters. They were not the violent and hate filled people I had expected to find. [...] Far from monsters, these strange and isolated people seemed, if anything, to feel too much and understand too little. In their words and deeds they harmed mainly themselves and their families.
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Source
"Racism, Anti-racism, and the Americans: Reflections on the European Year Against Racism", November 3, 1998 address, pp. xxxi–xxxii
- work
- Encyclopedia of White Power (2000)
- year
- 1998
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