And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal. Tim Wise
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
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Karl Lagerfeld
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people...
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Ashly Lorenzana
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better...
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C. Joybell C.
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
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Lynette Mather
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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Rodney Dangerfield
More Quotes By Tim Wise
Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.
And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice, ' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed...
So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old, " in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and...
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of...
