Man is prone to think that he knows all about himself, but he does not. Likewise, he who would criticize or suggest assuming to judge for another would, if actually confronted with the other’s problems, doubtless find himself in a terrible quandry. The words of the sage, “Man know thyself,” we would do well to…
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” – Malcolm X
The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward. — Ijoema Oluo
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. — Jackie Robinson,
Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. – Booker T. Washington
For MAGA revisionists as well as some progressives, commemorating slavery implies that the U.S. is permanently stained by it. Yet downplaying or exaggerating American slavery threatens something even graver than perpetual guilt: the loss of the country’s shared moral language. The story of slavery and its abolition is ultimately one of irrepressible human dignity. Properly…
I tried not to feel intimidated when classroom conversation was dominated by male students, which it often was. Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything…
When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible. ― Jesse Jackson Jr.
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we’re all precious in God’s sight. ― Jesse Jackson