Paula Rothenberg quotes
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“Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.”
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“White Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it… once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin addressing it on an individual and institutional basis.”
-- Paula RothenbergSource : "White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism". Book by Paula Rothenberg, 2002.
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“White privilege is the other side of racism.”
-- Paula Rothenberg
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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