Racial Hierarchies Quotes & Sayings

May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world. — George Eliot

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep. — Abu Bakr

I feel impossibly sad and like I'll die, what can we do? — Jack Kerouac

If you behave like a regular guy, you get treated like a regular guy. You can't cut yourself off from the world. You ultimately would go crazy, wouldn't you? — Timothy Dalton

I was a child of wealth, expected to do nothing but everything. — Alessandra Torre

I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as if the stick is made of air, and takes no notice of it, even when it is sharpened and draws blood. I must do the same. — Ned Hayes

It was really bizarre for me to go from being a very private and obscure person and then to be in any way on the internet - like having my picture or videos online. — Erika M. Anderson

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrass for a moment but not asking a question is embarrasing for a life time — Haruki Murakami

and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions. — Carl Hiaasen

sloppy kiss, and then I said, "Someone'll — Robert J. Conley

... "white supremacy" is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term "internalized racism"- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term "white supremacy" enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise "white supremacist control" over other black people. — Bell Hooks

Never run back to whatever broke you. — Anonymous

Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating. — Pixar's 22 Rules Of Storytelling

Nature means Necessity. — Philip James Bailey

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. — Nelson Mandela

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan