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More "Color-blind" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... may be said to have normal vision; the second are called color-blind. It is a curious fact that ten times more men than women are color-blind. ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell
... a symbolic golden key. Shop windows are brilliant with the rival colors, the streets are a shifting riot of red and blue and yellow, with a plague-spot here and there where some fanatics have striped their derby hats with blue and gold ribbon, or a color-blind Stanford man flaunts a villainously purple chrysanthemum. On the curbing, fakirs are selling shining red Christmas berries and violets and great bursting carnations, ...
— Stanford Stories - Tales of a Young University • Charles K. Field
... him follow his bent, and procured for him a position in the Seventh Regiment of Hussars. His career as a soldier was threatened at the outset by the refusal of the medical board to admit him to the Staff College on the ground that he was color-blind; but this decision was over-ruled by the Duke of Cambridge, then commander-in-chief, who nominated him personally. This was in 1885. England was then as nearly at peace as she ever became, and it seemed that young Haig was destined ...
— Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers • J. Walker McSpadden
... Consequently, Ridgway's problem was not an isolated one; his European counterpart was operating a largely segregated command almost 13 percent black. The Army could not prevent black overstrengths so long as Negroes were ordered into the quota-free service by color-blind draft boards, but it could equalize the overstrength by integrating its forces all over ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.
... smallest trials grow into great misfortunes. Our heart makes our world for us; and if the heart be without hope and cheer, the world is always dark. We find in life just what we have the capacity to find. One who is color-blind sees no loveliness in nature. One who has no music in his soul hears no harmonies anywhere. When fear sits regnant on the throne, ...
— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller
... that the owners of houses where one is bored are socially color-blind, as cheerfully unconscious of their weakness as the keyless lady and the ...
— The Ways of Men • Eliot Gregory
... injured. There are times when we cannot agree with a friend in the necessity for mourning or feeling injured; but we can understand the cause of his disturbance, and see clearly that his suffering is quite reasonable, from his own point of view. One cannot blame a man for being color-blind; but by thoroughly understanding and sympathizing with the fact that red must be green as he sees it, one can help him to bring his mental retina to a more normal state, until every color is taken at ...
— As a Matter of Course • Annie Payson Call
... men, they used a system of mathematics as clumsy as the old Roman numerals. You have to admire them, when you realize that they learned stellar navigation with their old system, though most ships use human math now. And of course, you know their eyes aren't like ours. Among other things, they're color-blind. They see everything in shades of ...
— The Colors of Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
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