“Each cultural norm motivated me to fit in while judging others who didn’t.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Understanding whiteness, regardless of class, is key to understanding racism.” — Debby Irving Racism Copy Share Image
“dysfunctional rescuing,” helping people in ways that actually disempower them.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard it said that conversations are the way human beings think together.” — Debby Irving Communication Copy Share Image
“We keep people down by lowering our expectations of them and then forcing them to live down to them.” — Debby Irving Expectations Copy Share Image
“The ingredient that takes the natural human inclination to sort, and adds to it the need to rank, is power.” — Debby Irving Nature Copy Share Image
“My white skin, an epidermal gold card, has greased the skids for a life full of opportunities and rewards” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“White people must learn how to listen to the experiences of people of color for racial healing and justice to happen.” — Debby Irving Justice Copy Share Image
“Racism demands an artificial and divisive construction of humanity, in terms of how I make sense of others and also how I… — Debby Irving Humanity Copy Share Image
“The story of race has become a self-fulfilling, self-perpetuating prophecy as the story creates the ideas, which then reinforce the story.” — Debby Irving Racism Copy Share Image
“Any cycle that traps someone in a state of perpetual disadvantage is the real issue for the person experiencing it.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Choosing to engage in the effort to dismantle racism promises to bring with it discomfort, yet how can I compare my discomfort… — Debby Irving Racism Copy Share Image
“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva comments: “[The] melting pot never included people of color. Blacks, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, et cetera, could not melt into the… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned that when it comes to race, there’s no such thing as neutral: either I’m intentionally and strategically working against it,… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Only a small part of reality, for a human being, is what is actually going on; the greater part is what he… — Debby Irving Reality Copy Share Image
“I now understand that acting like a white American wasn’t just a “When in Rome do as the Romans do” cultural sensibility,… — Debby Irving Melting pot Copy Share Image
“If there’s a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own feelings of discomfort that… — Debby Irving Anger and fear Copy Share Image
“I can tell you how exceptionally easy it is to be ignorant of the racial forces that have shaped my life and… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“About this time I came across Edmund Burke’s quote “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to… — Debby Irving Evil Copy Share Image
“Be it Europeans’ initial assumption of the right to invade in the 1600s, the Indian Removal Act in the 1800s, or the… — Debby Irving Politics Copy Share Image
“In the midst of getting my understanding of racial categories shaken up, I started thinking, What if, instead of categorizing people by… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Shifting from a superior/inferior paradigm to a strength-in-difference paradigm was kind of a good news/bad news situation. On the downside, I had… — Debby Irving American history Copy Share Image
![“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva comments: “[The] melting pot never included people of color. Blacks, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, et cetera, could not melt into the pot. They could be used as wood to produce the fire for the pot, but they could not be used as material to be melted into the pot.” quote by Debby Irving](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0e0/debby-irving-25569_melting-pot_eduardo-bonilla-silva-comments-the-melti_477185.jpg)
