Angelica

“There are parents who think better of their kids based on what their words say, but think worse of their kids based on what their policies say. These parents SAY their kids are smarter and harder working than those other kids but these same parents resist equalizing educational opportunities between their kids and those other kids. ... Their defense of a rigged educational system conveys maybe they don't think their child is smart after all; that they don't believe their kids could rise above the pack if their kids were not privileged. It is the conceit of parents who claim their kids are excelling solely because they are smarter or harder working. It is the insecurity of parents who resist changing the structure to one that better benefits all children, including their child. This is an allegory for racism. The very racial groups at the top of the racial hierarchy claim they are there due to their superiority at the same time they resist antiracist efforts to create a fair and equitable society where they could actually show they are superior.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

“When I wasn't told I was an impostor in these privileged classes, I was told I was privileged. To be a student in these classes is to be constantly told you are better than the students not in these classes. It is to be told you are gifted and hardworking--not like those other kids. For a teenager--whether White or Black or Asian or any other race--to be constantly told you are better is to start believing it. How else are you going to explain why so many kids like you or not like you are in--or are not in--these privileged classes?”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

“In 1965, a Senate subcommittee predicted that by the year 2000, Americans would work fourteen-hour weeks and take nearly two months of vacation time. Instead, the average American gets ten days of paid vacation and nearly one in four gets no paid holidays at all. Sadly, two things occurred that prevented a drop in working hours: a rise in consumerism and a steep rise in income inequality.”
― Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

“Literacy is not an end. Literacy should be taught as a means to critical thinking. Knowledge isn't an end. Knowledge is a means to critical thinking. The smartest student is not the student who is the most literate, or who knows the most. The smartest student has the greatest desire to know—to know all the facts and perspectives of human life and of the world.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist