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“The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.”

Quote by Patricia J. Williams

Book:The Rooster's Egg

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The Rooster's Egg

This book delves into the life of a rooster and his egg, examining the concepts of change and self-discovery in a unique and thought-provoking narrative. more

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Patricia J. Williams

Patricia J. Williams is an American legal scholar known for her work on gender, race, and sexual orientation legal issues. Her writings explore the intersections of law, literature, culture, and social politics. more

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Author:Patricia J. Williams

“the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.”

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Book:Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race

Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race

“the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.”

Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race

“We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.”

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Author:Patricia J. Williams

“to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.”

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“witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.”

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Book:The Rooster's Egg

Source: The Rooster's Egg

“Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.”

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Book:The Rooster's Egg

Source: The Rooster's Egg

“Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case.”

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Book:Witchcraft for Tomorrow

Source: Witchcraft for Tomorrow

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