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“I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.”
Source : "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh, nationalseedproject.org. 1989. 
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“A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.”
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“A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”
Source : Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.15
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“People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart”
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“It was good to be out there again. Actually I told my wife the same thing: Itll be fun to go out in a stadium on a field competing. Even though it was just a scrimmage.”
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“If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.”
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“If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon”
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“My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.”
