"Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender."

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Source : "Memo to Media: Manhood, Not Guns or Mental Illness, Should Be Central in Newtown Shooting" by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

Jackson Katz

#School Quotes #Typical Quotes #News Quotes

“Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the â€œluxuriousnessâ€ of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.”
“Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.”
“Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.”
“I know that there is a difference of opinion, but we stand united with the Standing Rock Nation in wanting the most highly militarized blockade in North Dakota history to be lifted, because it's functioning as a successful economic sanction.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark”
“French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.”
“With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.”

Source : William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”
“The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.”

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