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… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think. — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages. — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal. — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
