Jonathan Friedel

“We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves”
― Tom Hodgkinson, How To Be Free

“A constant state of low-level dread made people easy to control, because it robbed them of the sense that they could control anything themselves. This was not the sort of anxiety that moved people to action and accomplishment. This was the sort of anxiety that exceeded human capacity.”
― Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

“The stereotypical images we hold toward groups are powerful in influencing what people see and expect of students. Unless educators consciously try to undermine and work against these kinds of stereotypes, they often act on them unconsciously. Our assumptions related to race are so deeply entrenched that it is virtually impossible for us not to hold them unless we take conscious and deliberate action.”
― Pedro A. Noguera, The Trouble With Black Boys: ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education

“The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today.”
― Tom Hodgkinson, The Freedom Manifesto