Decent people Quotes

“One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.”

“What kind of country has this become? Decent people can’t do anything without being watched.”

“To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on the condition that they may be insipid.”

“...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.”

“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”

“So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.”

“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.”

“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”

“There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.”