"The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others."

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Source : Beverly Daniel Tatum (1997). “"Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations about Race”, Basic Books

Beverly Daniel Tatum

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“Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is no longer the case. The United States is once more an oil exporter. Available and accessible reserves of oil and natural gas in North America are far greater than was once believed. Yet the assumption that the Persian Gulf still qualifies as crucial to American national security persists in Washington. Why?”

Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.
“Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.”
“Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.”
“I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.”

Source : "Kelly Brook: 'TV likes mediocrity'" by Mayer Nissim, www.digitalspy.com. November 2, 2009.
“Themes recur again and again in my work.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)
“Use your head, Sep. Loads of wolverines. Hanging around waiting for super. Gtting excited. eating mint blasts. so what do you think they do?' it must be here. they can't have eaten that... i dunno, Nik, what do they do?' POO.”
“I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.”
“The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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