Racism Quotes by Margot Lee Shetterly

12 Racism quotes by Margot Lee Shetterly

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Margot Lee Shetterly offers 12 thoughtful reflections that blend historical context with contemporary concerns. Her background in science storytelling adds a precise, data‑driven edge to the discussion.

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The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

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“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view”

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“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.”

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“As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task…

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A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's…

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A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to…

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As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American…

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“Because of the overwhelmingly white public face of the space program, the black engineers, scientists, and mathematicians who were deeply involved with…

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“From the fissure of their ever-present double consciousness sprang the idea of the double victory, articulated by James Thompson in his letter…

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“James Thompson, a twenty-six-year-old cafeteria worker, eloquently articulated the Negro dilemma in a letter he wrote to the Pittsburgh Courier: "Being an…

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For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients…

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“Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing…

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“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.”

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“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view”

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“At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible.”

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Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at…

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“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.”

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“Like craftsmen in a medieval guild, NASA engineers hoped that one day their children would decide to take up the mantle of the profession…

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For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the…

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“a lifetime of stories”

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“Insatiably curious about the world.”

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The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.

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“Early in her career at Langley, Dorthy Lee was interviewed for the Daily Press, in all probability by Virginia Biggins, the female reporter assigned…

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“Get the girl to check the numbers,' said the astronaut. If she says the numbers are good, he told them, I'm ready to go.”

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My dad worked with Mary Jackson very closely at one point. I knew Katherine Johnson as well. They were all part of this group…

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“War, technology, and social progress; it seemed that the second two always came with the first. The NACA’s work—more intense and”

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“The black female mathematicians who walked into Langley in 1943 would find themselves at the intersection of these great transformations, their sharp minds and…

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