Ahmad

“There is an amazing phenomenon that occur in some human beings when things are going well, they actively seek something to be upset about…. Something in our reptilian brains won’t let us accept how good we have it, how safe we are. We seek out threats, create problems, because it’s easier to blame something external for our difficulties than it is to accept blame for our bad decisions or realize that, for lack of a better phrase, shit happens…. The concept of intersectionality allows literally anything to blamed on someone else, didn’t get a job you wanted? intersectionality has you covered. It was because you were X, Y, or Z, got pulled over for speeding? same rules apply. There’s nothing for which blame can’t be attributed to an external force or entity under the umbrella of intersectionality…. It truly is evil to absolve people of their responsibility and assign it to an external nebulas force beyond their control. Everyone has failures and disappointments but they should serve as learning experiences, those experiences lead to improvement and better outcomes in the future. But people who are told they’re victims of society’s bias many times will be discouraged by a few simple failures.”
― Derek Hunter

“Many of the women I met there (Yale) had come from the most privileged of circumstances, yet they often referred to themselves as "oppressed." I found it hard to take their "oppression" seriously, since I'd spent the first part of my life living among black women who cooked and kept house for the middle and upper class whites of Savannah. They never talked about being oppressed. What right, then, did the elite white women of Yale have to complain about their lot?”
― Clarence Thomas, My Grandfather's Son

“He would come to insist as corner stone of his legal philosophy that law is fundamentally a statement of society’s willingness to use force, every law means I will sooner kill than not have my way, as he put it, It was because he did not want the men who threw ideas around ever again to escape responsibility for where those ideas led, it was the same reason he lost the enthusiastic belief he once had in the cause of women suffrage, political decisions had better come from those who do the killing… In war time there’s more justification for limiting speech since the danger is proportionately greater.”
― Stephen Budiansky, Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas

“As much as I hated the injustices perpetrated against blacks in America, I couldn't bring myself to hate my own country, then or later.”
― Clarence Thomas, My Grandfather's Son