"Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Benjamin Jealous

#Lying Quotes #Eye Quotes #Hair Quotes

“The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.”
“He was dancing to some music No one else had ever heard He'd speak in unknown languages She would translate every word And then when the world was laughing At his castles in the sky She'd hold him in her body Till he once again could fly.”

Source : Song: Shooting Star, 1974
“Hollywood has treated me well.”
“I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be.”

Source : Source: rocksucker.co.uk
“The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.”
“After a moment, he turned sharply to me. 'Are you quite all right?' 'Yes, perfectly. Why do you ask?' 'Because I have just called you contrary and you did not bother to contradict me. I thought you might be ill.”
“No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force,”

Source : "Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings" by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell, (p. 92), 1993.
“I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates”

Source : "Eurogroup chief: 'I'm for secret, dark debates'" by Valentina Pop, euobserver.com. April 21, 2011.

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