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The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

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Patricia J. Williams

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

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the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.

Break, Humanity, Institutional, Lying, Racism, Ubiquity

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

Blindness, Color, Confusion, Racism, Worst

Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology.

Apology, Doors, Feminist, Hilary, Took

In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.

Central, Images, Islands, Law, Rights

The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

Hate, Polemics, Radio, School, Teaching
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