The Poor And Working Classes, If United Across Race, Could Be A Powerful Force. But Racial Divisions

“The poor and working classes, if united across race, could be a powerful force. But racial divisions have served to keep them from organizing against the owning class who profits from their labor.”

-White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

“Whites hold the social and institutional positions in society to infuse their racial prejudice into the laws, policies, practices, and norms of society in a way that people of color do not. A person of color may refuse to wait on me if I enter a shop, but people of color cannot pass legislation that prohibits me and everyone like me from buying a home in a certain neighborhood.”

-White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

kindness is a discipline, not a trait

“People were always so sure other people didn’t care. Devon saw that with most people you had to come into their sight, not just be an idea, and then they could show their goodness plain.”

-No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts

“Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known. Never had I found such comfort in a void, in the black absence of knowledge. It seemed to say; whatever you are, you are woman.”

-Educated, by Tara Westover

“It’s so much harder to actually define yourself and work to imagine the best possible future than it is to tear down others’ ideas.”

-An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green