Home / Quotes / Quote by Lani Guinier

Quote by Lani Guinier

“As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.”

Quote by Lani Guinier

Author

Lani Guinier is a distinguished law professor recognized for her expertise in civil rights and voting rights. Born in April 19, 1950, she has made significant contributions to the legal field, particularly in the areas of racial and gender equality. more

You May Also Like

“If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.”

Ifs Men World Enough Play Games Justice White Diversity Social Justice Indian White Man

Book:The Jailing of Cecelia Capture

Source: The Jailing of Cecelia Capture

“Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.”

Children Stills Justice Democracy Diversity Social Justice Stakes Undefeated Working With Children

Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“When I liberate others, I liberate myself.”

Justice Diversity Social Justice

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.”

Humans Kind Children Ideas Seems Might School Individual Easy Justice Human Beings Growing Air Machines Social Justice Realization Units Pacific Uneasiness Standardization

Book:The Ever-Present Past

Source: The Ever-Present Past

“That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.”

“It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.”

Mind Difficult Justice Diversity Social Justice Monsters Realization Keepers Buchenwald

Book:The Collected Last Plays

Source: The Collected Last Plays

“My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.”

Hands Light Justice Mines Divine Diversity Shadow Weak Social Justice

Author:Frances Harper

“It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.”

Should Past Evil Justice Diversity Argument Social Justice Persuasive

Author:William H. Hastie

“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”

World Giving Wells Age Hope Youth Comfortable Eternal Aging Rewards Old Age Melancholy Decay Prospects Eternal Love Youth And Old Age Eternal Youth

Author:Maurice Chevalier

“The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.”

Heart Spirit Hate Turns Justice Pleasure Virtue Fire Land Diversity Social Justice Excuse Bigotry Famine Minerals Poisonous Ranking Pestilence Spleen

Author:William Hazlitt