"Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics."

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Source : Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.48, Nation Books

Jack Newfield

#Adversity Quotes #Data Quotes #People Quotes

“In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.”
“Itâ€™s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.”
“I'm not the witch in the family!”
“Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.”
“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.”
“Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive”
“Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.”
“I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.”

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