Emma Richter

“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“If doing the most you can for others means that you are also flourishing, then that is the best possible outcome for everyone.”
― Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

“Most effective altruists are not saints but ordinary people like you and me, so very few effective altruists claim to live a fully ethical life. Most of them are somewhere on the continuum between a minimally acceptable ethical life and a fully ethical life. That doesn’t mean that they are constantly feeling guilty about not being morally perfect. Effective altruists don’t see a lot of point in feeling guilty. They prefer to focus on the good they are doing. Some of them are content to know they are doing something significant to make the world a better place. Many of them like to challenge themselves, to do a little better this year than last year.”
― Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

“But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd