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“So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.”
― A Torch Against the Night
― A Torch Against the Night
“When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it's our job to share our calm, not join their chaos.”
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“We cannot understand the relationship between poverty and education without understanding the biases and inequities experienced by people in poverty.”
― Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap
― Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap
“Radical empathy, on the other hand, means putting in the work to educate oneself and to listen with a humble heart to understand another's experience from their perspective, not as we imagine we would feel. Radical empathy is not about you and what you think you would do in a situation you have never been in and perhaps never will. It is the kindred connection from a place of deep knowing that opens your spirit to the pain of another as they perceive it.
Empathy is no substitute for the experience itself. We don't get to tell a person with a broken leg or a bullet wound that they are not in pain. And people who have hit the caste lottery are not in a position to tell a person who has suffered under the tyranny of caste what is offensive or hurtful or demeaning to those at the bottom. 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
Empathy is no substitute for the experience itself. We don't get to tell a person with a broken leg or a bullet wound that they are not in pain. And people who have hit the caste lottery are not in a position to tell a person who has suffered under the tyranny of caste what is offensive or hurtful or demeaning to those at the bottom. 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
“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”
― The Kiss of Deception
― The Kiss of Deception
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