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David Roediger
"In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time." --
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David Roediger
#Law Quotes
#White Quotes
#Long Quotes
“It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.”
“When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in theirs. When you look at someone like Ada Lovelace who is the first computer programmer, during her lifetime doctors said that was really sick because she was trying to use a masculine kind of brain that she didn't have. Today, her legacy of being the first programmer is stil disputed.”
Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.”
“Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.”
“The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender.”
“The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.”
“Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.”
Source : Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.114
“Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to present it as something different again, and even more intriguing. The DNA in you is a coded description of ancient worlds in which your ancestors lived. DNA is the wisdom out of the old days, and I mean very old days indeed.”