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“There’s a saying in Germany. If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.”
― Regina Jackson, White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

“Finally, you might be wondering why we focus our work on white women, rather than men. As Regina says, “If white men wanted to change anything, they’d have done it by now, so why bother trying to get them to do anything.”
― Regina Jackson, White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

“How can we, strangers, know these white women better than they know themselves? you might ask. It's survival. We have to...In order to navigate and survive your everyday racism, we have had to study your every move, every pattern, every signal, every word. Just like you know men better than men know themselves, people of color know white people better than you know yourselves.”
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“That's the work,' Regina says. "To push your friends, your family, your co-workers. Not to sit in silence thinking, but actually voicing your convictions. Out loud. In the moment.”
― Regina Jackson, White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

“In the end, you cannot even start the process of extracting white supremacy from your being until you extract the need to be perfect”
― Regina Jackson, White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better