"As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways."

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Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

David Roediger

#Kids Quotes #Color Quotes #Europe Quotes

“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.”
“For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . .”
“And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.”
“I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
“May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.”
“I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.”

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