“ ...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is p… Tim Wise
“ Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America. Tim Wise
“ There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nur… Isaac Asimov
“ The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.In other words. It is a privi… Tim Wise
“ Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads. DaShanne Stokes
“ Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. Anne Rice
“ A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all. DaShanne Stokes
“ When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of… Iain Pears
“ After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powe… Tim Wise
“ A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war]. I think that's more terr… Noam Chomsky
“ We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato
“ Both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many a… David Mitchell
“ Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by scienc… Charles Darwin
“ The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get. Frank Zappa
“ But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. Ray Bradbury
“ . . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful. Joyce Carol Oates
