quotes about Blind Spots

last updated: November 28, 2023

Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.
-- D. Patrick Miller

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... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.
-- Sarah-Patton Boyle

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Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well.
-- Jeffrey Rosen

Source : "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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“Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?”
“Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.”
“People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection, and they memorized my songs in Spanish.”

Source : "Singer Thalia Gets Personal, Emotional In ‘Growing Stronger’". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.
“[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.”
“True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.”
“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
“When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan
“Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.”

Source : Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”
“Where I trained at in Florida, though, they didn't have Jack in the Box. There were a couple of nights where they were all I could think about. But, it worked out for me at the combine. It paid off.”
“Human beings have their great chance in the novel.”