Robert Jensen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Toxic masculinity hurts men, but thereâ€™s a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.
-- Robert Jensen

#Hurt #Men #Differences
People routinely assume that ***** is such a difficult and divisive issue because it's about sex. In fact, this culture struggles unsuccessfully with ***** because it is about men's cruelty to women, and the pleasure men sometimes take in that cruelty. And that is much more difficult for people-- men and women-- to face.
-- Robert Jensen

#Sex #Struggle #Men
The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged not to think independently or critically, and instead to accept the mythology of the United States as a benevolent, misunderstood giant as it lumbers around the world trying to do good.
-- Robert Jensen

#Thinking #Knowing #People
Mainstream politicians will continue to protect existing systems of power, corporate executives will continue to maximize profit without concern, and the majority of people will continue to avoid these questions. Itâ€™s the job of people with critical sensibilitiesâ€”those who consistently speak out for justice and sustainability, even when itâ€™s difficultâ€”not to back away just because the world has grown more ominous.
-- Robert Jensen

#Jobs #People #Justice
The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.
-- Robert Jensen

#Pain #Knowing #Empathy
Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers. ...How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?
-- Robert Jensen

#Country #Father #Blessed
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?
-- Robert Jensen

#Country #Views #Political
The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values: The logic of domination and subordination that is central to patriarchy, hyper-patriotic nationalism, white supremacy, and a predatory corporate capitalism.
-- Robert Jensen

#Patriotic #White #Logic
This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have failed to care for it. And as our collective contempt for the non-human world has intensified, so has our contempt for each other. We have failed to care for each other.
-- Robert Jensen

#Simple #Discovery #World
We're all in the race game, so to speak, either consciously or unconsciously. We can overtly support white-supremacist racial projects. We can reject white supremacy and support racial projects aimed at a democratic distibution of power and a just distribution of resources. Or we can claim to not be interested in race, in which case we almost certainly will end up tacitly supporting white supremacy by virtue of our unwillingness to confront it. In a society in which white supremacy has structured every aspect of our world, there can be no claim to neutrality.
-- Robert Jensen

#Our World #Race #Games
I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine a kinder-and-gentler patriotism, but to sweep away the notion and acknowledge it as morally, politically, and intellectually bankrupt. It is time to scrap patriotism.
-- Robert Jensen

#Dark #Nihilism #Sides
History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent history. It matters because if we can't we will never be able to face the present, guaranteeing that our future will be doomed.
-- Robert Jensen

#Justice #Matter #Able
People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.
-- Robert Jensen

#Grief #People #Political

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