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Values Quotes by Bell Hooks
- In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with…
- To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place…
- I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a…
- Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear,…
- …“white supremacy†is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not…
- When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as…
- Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what…
- Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in…
- Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans†within the framework of white supremacy has…
More Values Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is… — Ezra Taft Benson
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov