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“A human is killed by accident way less often than a child is made by mistake.”

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“Members of society who are wealthy, or whose livelihood is guaranteed by an institution, or whose religious commitments ensure that they will never have to choose between abortion (or other forms of birth control) and being saddled with the many burdens of parenthood—all these sheltered classes can easily approach all moral problems on an exclusively literate plane, with comforting words that give no hint of numerate realities, including the afflictions that time will bring. Margaret Sanger's experience as a nurse in daily contact with the wretchedly poor made her see the numerate realities that were effectively invisible to the sheltered classes — until she rubbed their noses in raw life. Opening the eyes of the socially blind required the creation of new terms: birth control in 1914 and planned parenthood in the 1930s. Literate approaches frequently deceive, but (with imagination) words can be made to serve the goals of intelligent numeracy. Compassionate souls soon see that all of society benefits when women are freed from the necessity of bearing unwanted babies. (It is remarkable how often a human ostrich who seeks to impose compulsory pregnancy and mandatory motherhood on women lightly belittles a woman's request for an abortion as being no more than a "whim.")”

Abortion Planned Parenthood Numeracy Margaret Sanger

Book:The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia

Source: The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia

“You have to get over the fear of facing the worst in yourself. You should instead fear unexamined racism. Fear the thought that right now, you could be contributing to the oppression of others and you don't know it. But do not fear those who bring that oppression to light. Do not fear the opportunity to do better.”

Social Justice White Supremacy Racism In America Racism Quotes White Privilege Racial Justice White People

Book:So You Want to Talk About Race

Source: So You Want to Talk About Race

“I know that it's hard to believe that the people you look to for safety and security are the same people who are causing us so much harm. But I'm not lying and I'm not delusional. I am scared and I am hurting and we are dying. And I really, really need you to believe me.”

Race Equality Police Brutality Racial Justice

Book:So You Want to Talk About Race

Source: So You Want to Talk About Race

“Blind Justice II All because we were in the wrong place we were in the wrong skins we were in the wrong time we were in the wrong bodies we were in the wrong country we were in the wrong were in the wrong in the wrong the wrong wrong All because they were in the right place they were in the right skins they were in the right time they were in the right bodies they were”

Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Racial Justice Racial Injustice

Book:Punching the Air

Source: Punching the Air

“We've got to get on the same page before we can turn it. We've tried a do-it-yourself approach to writing the racial narrative about America, but the forces selling denial, ignorance, and projection have succeeded in robbing us of our own shared history--both the pain and the resilience. It's time to tell the truth, with a nationwide process that enrolls all of us in setting the facts straight so that we can move forward with a new story, together.”

America Racism Racial Justice Race Relations In America Racial Equity

Book:The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Source: The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

“If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit that it's there.”

Human Rights Civil Rights Racial Justice

Author:Malcom X

“A lot of people want to skip ahead to the finish line of racial harmony. Past all this unpleasantness to a place where all wounds are healed and the past is laid to rest.”

Racism Equality Equity Racism In America Racial Justice Racial Injustice

Book:So You Want to Talk About Race

Source: So You Want to Talk About Race

“We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. It was an army that would move but not maul. It was an army that would sing but not slay. It was an army that would flank but not falter. It was an army to storm the bastions of hatred, to lay siege to the fortress of segregation, to surround the symbols of discrimination. It was an army whose allegiance was to God and whose strategy and intelligence were eloquently simple dictates of conscience.”

Author:Martin Luther King Jr.

“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”

Spirituality Meaning Of Life Blues Griot Troubadour

Book:Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

Source: Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

“and soon there was this invisible line we couldn't cross like we can't go where the nice places are Can't touch the nice things because everything about us our skin, our faces, our hair, our words, our music will break things will ruin things will make things ugly just by us being there But those white boys didn't care about no lines The world belonged to them including our hood”

Racial Justice Racial Injustice

Book:Punching the Air

Source: Punching the Air