Black history Quote by reni eddo-lodge Download Open image ““Faced with a collective forgetting, we must fight to remember.”” — reni eddo-lodge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black history Britain Fight History Memory Racism Remember
“Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“We must forget what they said if it causes us to forget who we are.” — Zara Hairston Copy Share Image
“There are things that one keeps on dreaming of forgetting, while others were ought to be remembered, but were kept off.” — Fady Seleem Copy Share Image
“Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.” — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Remembering everything is not the only solution. Perhaps, forgetfulness can make us live in peace too.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely the hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Sometimes all you need is to be remembered, especially in a place where it’s so easy to forget.” — Emory R. Frie Copy Share Image
“To be white is to be human; to be white is universal. I only know this because I am not.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“It's clear that equality doesn't quite cut it. Asking for a sliver of disproportionate power is too polite a request. I don't want to… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The idea of white privilege forces white people who aren’t actively racist to confront their own complicity in its continuing existence. White privilege is… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The journey towards understanding structural racism still requires people of colour to prioritise white feelings. Even if they can hear you, they’re not really… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people, and it… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The journey towards understanding structural racism still requires people of colour to prioritise white feelings.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Some start boycotting halal meat on cruelty grounds, as though there are varying degrees of acceptable animal death they'll withstand for the benefit of… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Not displaying anger wasn’t going to stop me being labelled as angry, so I thought: fuck it. I decided to speak my mind. The… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.” — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.” — Cristina García Copy Share Image
When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Happy Black History Month everyone. I challenge you blacks to change how other races view us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image