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“One of the most effective ways in which dominant groups maintain their power is by depriving the people they dominate of the knowledge of their own history.
Lacking an appreciation of their own historical experience and the dignity, even glory, of the actions of their own people, the colonized are encouraged to think that they have no alternative to oppressive conditions.”
― Women's America: Refocusing the Past
Lacking an appreciation of their own historical experience and the dignity, even glory, of the actions of their own people, the colonized are encouraged to think that they have no alternative to oppressive conditions.”
― Women's America: Refocusing the Past
“There was something magical about listening to a story unfold in which the characters coexisted harmoniously in a peaceful haven while being enveloped in the comfort and security of maternal devotion.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
“As the economy began to improve in the early 1940s, she made small deposits into five local savings banks for Kiki's education. Having lived through the crash, when banks closed their doors and customers' deposits vanished, she was unwilling to entrust all her savings to a single institution.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
“I know what I know. If I go somewhere and talk about myself, I don’t learn anything. If I listen to other people, more likely than not, I will find out something I didn’t know.” Listening, Ruth decided, was not only an art but a mark of intelligence.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life
