I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.
We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California.
Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
