Institutional Vs Structural Racism Quotes & Sayings

As for human contact, I'd lost all appetite for it. Mankind has, as you may have noticed, become very inventive about devising new ways for people to avoid talking to each other and I'd been taking full advantage of the most recent ones. I would always send a text message rather than speak to someone on the phone. Rather than meeting with any of my friends, I would post cheerful, ironically worded status updates on Facebook, to show them all what a busy life I was leading. And presumably people had been enjoying them, because I'd got more than seventy friends on Facebook now, most of them complete strangers. But actual, face-to-face, let's-meet-for-a-coffee-and-catch-up sort of contact? I seemed to have forgotten what that was all about. — Jonathan Coe

You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future. — Joyce Meyer

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here. — Edna Ferber

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled. — Mal Peet

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. — Sivananda

But could anything have always existed? Something deep down inside her protested at the idea. Surely everything that exists must have had a beginning? So space must sometime have been created out of something else. But if space had come from something else, then that something else must also have come from something. Sophie felt she was only deferring the problem. At some point, something must have come from nothing. But was that possible? Wasn't that just as impossible as the idea that the world had always existed? — Jostein Gaarder

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment. — Whittaker Chambers

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge — Robert Breault

I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that. — Ryne Sandberg

The Savior asks us to repent not just to repay him for paying our debt to justice, but also to induce us to undergo the personal development that will purify our very nature. The 'natural man' will remain an enemy to God forever - even after paying for his own sins - unless he also 'becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord.' (Mosiah 3:19.) — Bruce C. Hafen

We have to stop making excuses. One of the things that I'm careful to show is the horrendous effects of institutional and structural racism, but in the end, you can't wait for white man or a Black man to come riding in on a white horse to save you. We have to save ourselves, and that's the lesson of "The African Americans." — Henry Louis Gates

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold. — Philippa Gregory

Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles. — Michael Grant