“ It is a shock when the mind awakens to the fact that not all of humanity is human—that whole groups of people do not regard others with humane feelings. ”
Henry Ford, My Life and Work (1922). copy citation
Author | Henry Ford |
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Source | My Life and Work |
Topic | humanity awakening |
Date | 1922 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7213/pg7213-images.html |
Context
“we shall not bother about masses and classes, or closed and open shops, and such matters as have nothing at all to do with the real business of living. We can get down to facts. We stand in need of facts.
It is a shock when the mind awakens to the fact that not all of humanity is human—that whole groups of people do not regard others with humane feelings. Great efforts have been made to have this appear as the attitude of a class, but it is really the attitude of all "classes," in so far as they are swayed by the false notion of "classes." Before, when it was the constant effort of propaganda to make the people believe that it was only the "rich"”
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