78 quotes found
“You make someone into a object of not so much of pity as of weakness, sickness, stupidity, inefectiveness, do you see what I mean? You hit them for their stupidity and their inability to respond, ...”
“Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts an...”
“We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence,...”
“Fear masquerades as a "just cause" while devouring all forms of freedom and dignity.”
“Bad bloods aren't born evil or dangerous. We are taught to be, but only because we have to if we want to survive.”
“For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained...”
“External explanations of black-white differences discrimination or poverty, for exampleseem to many to be more amenable to public policy than internal explanations such as culture. Those with this...”
“Then I told him, Injustice, Poverty and Discrimination is faced by a lot of Indians, and also majority, the fact is that if you Minority stop thinking yourself as a part of Minority and start think...”
“The greatest moral appeal of the doctrine of the Blank Slate comes from a simple mathematical fact: zero equals zero. This allows the Blank Slate to serve as a guarantor of political equality...[I]...”
“All discrimination - whatever form it takes - is evil and that the world can go to pieces because of it.”
“When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it.”
“The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.”
“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.”
“White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.”
“Political correctness' as 'over-sensitivity' is code for saying the privileged shouldn't have their unearned privileges questioned.”
“Privilege is not knowing that you're hurting others and not listening when they tell you.”
“Her anger at the young woman's stubbornness quickly prompted recollections of all the times she'd found herself on one side or another of these meaningless, bigoted demarcations; all the times she'...”
“...The straitjackets of race prejudice and discrimination do not wear only southern labels. The subtle, psychological technique of the North has approached in its ugliness and victimization of the ...”
“The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemurs who want your r...”
“Dominicans are in fact, Haitians by default.Since the natives named the whole island named Hati, stop being a dolt.”
