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Dean Spade
"Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions." --
Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
Dean Spade
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“I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.”
“I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.”
“If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.”
“And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.”
“The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.”
“Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.”
“Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being”
“There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.”