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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
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When we spend our lives waiting until we’re perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on
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“Negro poverty is not white poverty…. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the Negro they are a constant reminder of oppression. For the white they are a constant reminder of guilt. But they must be faced, and they must be dealt with, and they must be overcome; if we are ever to reach the time when the only difference between Negroes and whites is the color of their skin.”17”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“We all, rich and poor alike, need to give our souls an airing once in a while. What both men and women, tired or idle, do want is to be genuinely moved and stirred, either to laughter or to tears, in short, to be lifted out of the rut and routine of their daily life and thoughts.”
― Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land
― Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land
“The negro is now a voter and a citizen. Let him hereafter take his chances in the battle of life.”43 From this point forward, white Americans were ready to blame Black behavior, and not racism and the deprivations of 250 years of enslavement, for persisting racial inequities.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“The legacy of this nation to Black Americans has consisted of immorally high rates of poverty, incarceration, and death and the lowest rates of land and home ownership, employment, school funding, and wealth. All of this reveals that Black Americans, along with Indigenous people—the two groups forced to be part of this nation—remain the most neglected beneficiaries of the America that would not exist without us. This unacknowledged debt, all of it, is still accruing. And it will continue to accrue”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“What most distinguishes white American evangelicals from other Christians, other religious groups, and nonbelievers is not theology but politics,” writes Seth Dowland, associate professor of religion at Pacific Lutheran University and author of Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right. “Over the course of the 20th century, the evangelical coalition entwined theology, whiteness, and conservative politics…. To identify as evangelical in the early 21st century signals commitments to gun rights, the abolition of legal abortion, and low taxes.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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