“L’homme qui proclame que ses aïeux ne l’intéressent pas est seulement un peu moins vain que celui qui fonde toutes ses actions sur la supériorité de sa race.”
Sartoris, 1929
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hommes , homme , action , fonds , fond , fondation , race , supériorité , moins , tout , proclamation , peu , seulWilliam Faulkner 18
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Essais, Livre I
Variante: Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaisé d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.

I will say, then, that I am not nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with White people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the White and black races which will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of
Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858