Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
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Douglas Adams
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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Robert Anton Wilson
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
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Confucius
And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract–the Constitution–made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations...
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Lysander Spooner
UNDIVIDEDI am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am for One peaceful world for all, Where hate has been overcome by love, And everyone is guided only By their conscience.
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Suzy Kassem
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...
