I’m so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic
I’m so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. —Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. —Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world. —Martin Luther King Jr., … Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist→
Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world. —Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party
You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. —Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party
It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic
It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. —Lewis H. Lapham, American writer and editor
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. —Lewis H. Lapham, American writer and editor
And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president’s spouse. I wish him well! —Barbara Bush, former First Lady
And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president’s spouse. I wish him well! —Barbara Bush, former First Lady
