Robin DiAngelo Quotes

Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.

Robin DiAngelo

Recitation: by Male by Female

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RacismPeopleColorYouWhiteDown

I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.

John Coltrane

GoodWordsSufferingWorldBadKnow

Obviously, there's not as much flex in a wood bat as in a metal bat, so I'm still trying to adjust to that.

Andrew Benintendi

TryingWoodAdjustMetalBatStill

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.

Steven Wright

PoliticsUniverseMcDonaldTalkOff

We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is to the rule of God, the more ordered our relationships will become in society.

Tony Evans

GodLosingSocietyUnderstanding

I don't think I'm boring.

Tony Parker

ThinkBoring

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

Mason Cooley

MoneySomeoneFindUnderstandOut

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Joshua Jackson

EducationThinkAmericaValuesVery

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

Djimon Hounsou

FamilyHomeSupportChildLeftJust

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Christopher McDougall

TimePeopleIceStrangersKnowQuit

I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.

Chris Pine

LearnTryingListenRadioLike

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

GreatTreeRootsChurchEarthWay

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

Placido Domingo

MyselfMoneyMotivationOrganize

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