"White Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of itâ€¦ once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin addressing it on an individual and institutional basis."

Source : "White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism". Book by Paula Rothenberg, 2002.

Paula Rothenberg

#Moving Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Names Quotes

“Sad to hear of Paul Scholes retirement! One of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership! Idolised him for years! Legend.”
“Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell real-life stories and make them funny. So, I'm not like the average comedian. They have an ending joke; they always holler Peace! I'm out of here, and walk off stage. So, basically, when I get through performing on stage, I just walk off.”
“All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.”
“Evidence of warming is not evidence that the cause is anthropogenic.”

Source : Siegfried Fred Singer, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, Science and Environmental Policy Project (2008). “Nature, not human activity, rules the climate: summary for policy makers of the report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change”
“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
“It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.218, Simon and Schuster
“Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.”
“The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.”

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