"It appears that my worst fears have been……" — Derrick Bell
"It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed."
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15 Quotes by Derrick Bell
Derrick Bell has 15 quotes on this site.
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All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or…
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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…
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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…
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We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power,…
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Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater…
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However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to…
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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…
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Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
— Francis Bacon
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
— Arthur Balfour
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,…
— Bob Beauprez
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
— Martha Beck
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part…
— Annie Besant
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least…
— David Brainerd
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