“Humans are not the pinnacle of evolution we imagine ourselves to be.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“If we are going to save endangered primates, we must first recognize that they are individuals much like human beings, who prefer to be free to live their lives independent of exploitation.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Nonhuman primates are many and wondrous, yet few and endangered.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Our efforts to protect primates will be much more effective if we dismantle the artificial line that we have created between ourselves and other animals.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Susan’s and Jennifer’s job searches are likely made harder by the color of their skin. In the early 2000s, researchers in Chicago and Boston mailed out fake résumés to hundreds of employers, varying only the names of the applicants, but choosing names that would be seen as identifiably black or white. Strikingly, “Emily” and “Brendan” were 50 percent more likely to get called for an interview than “Lakisha” and “Jamal.” A few years later, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin conducted a similar study in Milwaukee, but with a unique twist. She recruited two black and two white actors (college students, posing as high school graduates) who were as similar as possible in every way. She sent these “job applicants” out in pairs, with virtually identical fake résumés, to apply for entry-level jobs. Her twist was to instruct one of the white and one of the black applicants to tell employers that they had a felony conviction and had just been released from prison the month before. Even the researcher was surprised by what she found: the white applicant with a felony conviction was more likely to get a positive response from a prospective employer than the black applicant with no criminal record. When the study was replicated in New York City a few years later, she and her colleagues saw similar results for Latino applicants relative to whites.”
Source: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
“Revised regulations will never suppress federal workplace retaliation; nor will it cure the inaction of an EEOC official when justice demands fair, prompt and judicious decision-making.”
“The EEOC's promise to "prevent unlawful employment discrimination" remains gravely overdue. The needed changes to make government a "model employer" the EEOC refuses to pursue. To lift our communities from the depth of inequity, we must use our collective voices and #ExposeEEOC”
“Please tell me people who look like us can be loved.
Please tell me people who look like us can be desired.
Please tell me people who look like us can have happy endings.”
Source: Spoiler Alert
“Research shows that shaming fat folks into thinness doesn't work. And come on if it did, most of the fat women in the world would have probably disappeared by now”
Source: Big Summer
“We are the Masters of each moment.”
Source: Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation