"Racism is a learned affliction and anything that……" — Jane Elliott

"Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned"

— Jane Elliott

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19 Quotes by Jane Elliott

Jane Elliott has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.
I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear…
I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of…
We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything…
We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority.…
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those…
We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for…
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and…
I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you…
We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you…
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males…

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More Affliction Quotes

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into… — Richard Cecil
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never… — Victor Hugo
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when… — Unknown Author
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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