Mitsuye Yamada famous quotes
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We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects...
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If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.
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We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.
-- Mitsuye Yamada
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In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
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I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.
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Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.
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Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
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The QB is going to be judged, fair or unfair, on success in the playoffs. You remember QBs who have won 3 or 4 Super Bowls
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The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.
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