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“We are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. The lies they tell each other sound better to them than the truth does when it comes out of our mouths.”
― Deacon King Kong
― Deacon King Kong
“Why we got to have the police around every time we has a simple party? Ya'll don't watch out for us. Y'all watch over us. I don't see y'all out there standing over the white folks in Park Slope when they has their block parties”
― Deacon King Kong
― Deacon King Kong
“The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“Europe is very good at building memorials for dead Jews. It is still learning how to protect the living ones. Vigils honor the dead, but they don't do much for the living. Solidarity does.”
― How to Fight Anti-Semitism
― How to Fight Anti-Semitism
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