"The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy."

-- Cathy O'Neil

#Thinking Quotes #White Quotes #Racism Quotes

“Envy is not to be conquered but by death.”
“The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.434
“No. I just never wanted to throw them away. Even if they were broken. I still loved them.”
“What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to kidnap one of the leaders of the segregationist movement there? And what are we going to reply if a court in Ghana or the Congo quotes the Eichmann case as precedent?”
“The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.”
“Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun.”
“You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.”
“You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.”

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