"I don't think colleges are safe spaces. It's one thing to have a fraternity house or a community center where students can go and talk about their shared experiences. But it's another thing to have safe spaces in the sense that the university's providing them with protection from what they have to experience and find ways of protesting and resisting."

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Source : Source: www.salon.com

Joan Wallach Scott

#College Quotes #Thinking Quotes #House Quotes

“There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”
“Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.”
“Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.”
“Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.”
“The bottom line is there is large uncertainty because nobody has a very good handle on the aerodynamics at those altitudes and at those speeds. Given that large degree of uncertainty, life could be normal during entry or some bad things could happen.”

Source : "Astronaut Will Make Shuttle Repairs in Orbit". "NPR News" with David Kestenbaum, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.
“Iâ€™ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesnâ€™t feel right or isnâ€™t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.”
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.”
“The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.”

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