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Derrick Bell has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
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Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives…
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The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.
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Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
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I live to harass white folks.
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A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice…
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It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
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We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity,…
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Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as…
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However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we…
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Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
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Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly…
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If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
— Tori Amos
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I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to…
— Ani DiFranco
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our…
— Nelson Mandela
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Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own…
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The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own…
— Giovanni Falcone
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True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which…
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the…
— Joseph Campbell
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But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite…
— Robert Jay Lifton
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Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life’s challenges is actually our own fear of failure.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the…
— Lupita Nyong'o
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I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference,…
— Meera Syal
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