Daily Inspiration Quote by Walter Lang

“Accordingly” is doing a lot of work here: it signals that the line isn’t a lofty wish, but a conclusion drawn from evidence already laid out. In the mouth of a director like Walter Lang, that matters. Directors are professional arrangers of meaning. They persuade not just with dialogue, but with casting, framing, who gets the close-up, and who’s relegated to the background. So when Lang lands on “neither superior nor inferior,” he’s not merely taking a moral position; he’s asserting a baseline that the culture routinely refuses to grant.

The phrasing is deliberately clinical: no poetry, no pleading, no self-congratulation. That restraint is the point. It sidesteps the sentimental “tolerance” register and instead treats racial hierarchy as an irrational claim that can’t survive scrutiny. The symmetry of “neither…nor…” also traps the listener: if you accept one half (no superiority), you’re pushed to accept the other (no inferiority). It’s a rhetorical door that locks behind you.

Context sharpens the intent. Lang’s career spanned an American film industry that profited from stereotypes, segregated labor practices, and coded “whiteness” as default humanity. A director stating equality as a conclusion reads like quiet resistance within a system built on implicit rankings. The subtext: if you’re still acting as though some group is “less,” you’re not just being cruel; you’re being illogical, out of step with what any honest accounting of human worth should yield.