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"Yellow peril" Quotes from Famous Books

... any chance," suggested Stuart, smiling slightly, "hinting at that defunct bogey, the 'Yellow Peril'?" ...

— The Golden Scorpion • Sax Rohmer

... hanging out in anticipation of, and their hands clutching for, unearned doles. And now, the more shame to us, must be added a third class who use public office for private profit. What if we all turned to and gave something without being forced to do so? Where would the "Yellow peril" and the "German menace" be then? We should have much less exciting and inciting talk and writing if our nerves and digestions were in better order. Nothing calms the nerves, increases confidence, and lessens ...

— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

... like the Negro, is condemned to remain among us an abstraction, a symbol—and a symbol not merely of his own race but of the Orient and of that vague, ill-defined menace we sometimes refer to as the "yellow peril." This not only determines to a very large extent the attitude of the white world toward the yellow man but it determines the attitude of the yellow man toward the white. It puts between the races the invisible but ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park