Denial Quote by Robin DiAngelo Download Open image ““We have a deep interest in denying the forms of oppression which benefit us.”” — Robin DiAngelo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Denial Oppression Privilege
“When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“We who are oppressed love those who fight against oppression.” — Louis Farrakhan Muhammad Sr Copy Share Image
“Oppression is the seed of power; you will plant it against yourself” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“Oppression: Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable, doesn't mean it has to change.” — John Stewart Copy Share Image
“All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“No matter how primitive a community is, it is against any type of oppression.” — Suwardi Surjaningrat Copy Share Image
“The great and the mighty that use their assets and power to subjugate people are demonstrating oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Oppression is domesticating. The gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors.” — Steven Chuks Nwakokeke Copy Share Image
We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only some people… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness serves to… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A mistake doesnt make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial. — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
People are in denial all the time, hiding things. If I tell you a racist or dirty joke and you laugh, you're telling me… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself. — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
