Eileen O'Brien quotes

“Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.”
-- Eileen O'Brien

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“Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity.”
-- Eileen O'Brien

Source : Eileen O'Brien (2001). “Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and their Paths to Action”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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“Whites have traded their culture for power.”
-- Eileen O'Brien

Source : Eileen O'Brien (2001). “Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and Their Paths to Action”, p.117, Rowman & Littlefield

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“It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.”

“It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.”

“The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.”

“The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.”

“If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.”

“White in the moon the long road lies.”

“People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'”

“White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.”

“It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.