R Quotes
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“Rachel, Rachel, Rachel,” he said, very still and unmoving. “Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You’re like a frog, you know.”
“Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.”
“Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble? (Glenn)”
“Rachel, you summon demons. You’re good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It’s not going to go away.”
Source: White Witch, Black Curse
“Rachel, you take her,” my mother said, clearly uncomfortable. “She might like you.” “No. Mom, no!” I protested, but it was my mother we were talking about, and it was either take the baby or have her hit the floor.”
“Rachel,” came a raspy voice from the upper level, and both Trent and I turned. It was Quen, wrapped in a blanket as if it was a death shroud, the black-haired intern at his side, supporting him. His hair was plastered to his skull with sweat, and I could see him wavering as he stood there. “Don’t touch Trenton,” he said, his gravelly voice clear in the hush, “or I’m going to have to come down there…and smack you around.”
“Rachel: They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb. Annabeth: Was it hard?”
“Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care.”
“Rachel?” came Ivy’s voice from her room. “Where’s my sword?” “In the foyer where you left it last week when the evangelists were canvassing the neighborhood”
“Rachelle sighed. She had let those miserable bitches
get to her. It wasn't necessarily the comments that got to her. In fact, in her line of work, she expected it. It was the fact that they came from her boyfriend's family. Rachelle wasn't naïve, of course. She knew everyone wasn't going to like what she did for a living, but that did not give people license to disrespect or dehumanize her, especially when they lived in glass houses.”
Source: Motor City Witches: The Goddess Within
“Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.”
“Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.”
“Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.”
“Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them is to continue to operate in the terrain mapped out by white supremacy.”
Source: What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition – An Empowering Guide to Interrogating Whiteness and Creating Justice
“Racial differences are largely adaptations to climate. Skin pigment was a sunscreen for the tropics, eyelid folds were goggles for the tundra. The parts of the body that face the elements are also the parts that face the eyes of other people, which fools them into thinking that racial differences run deeper than they really do.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.”
“Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.”
“Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.”
“Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.”
“Racial discrimination is illegal. It's illegal in the United States. It's illegal in Arizona. It has been and it will continue to be.”
“Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.”
“Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.”
“Racial equality is a prize worth fighting for.”
“Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history of our nation would not be complete without the story of former slaves that helped develop the unique character of the West.”
“Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.”
“Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.”
“Racial inequality has gotten worse in the last years because any time you have a moribund economy, the people who historically have had more problems getting jobs have suffered. And that, I think, is triggering a lot of the animosity.”
“Racial inequality is a big problem.”
“Racial inequity and injustice, and gender inequity, are systemic problems that impede businesses from achieving their greater potential in the global marketplace; in the meantime, society suffers as well. Readers will learn how companies and their boards, together with nonprofits and governments, can drive prosperity by centering equity and sustainability.”
Source: A Better World, Inc.: Corporate Governance for an Inclusive, Sustainable, and Prosperous Future
“Racial injustice is a dangerous relic of the darkest days of history.”
“Racial injustice is America’s original sin and deepest silence.”
Source: A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
“Racial justice is key to a compassionate, inclusive, dynamic society.”
“Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.”
“Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.”
“Racial prejudice has always been a difficult topic for me. On several occasions I've withdrawn from conversations that devolved into white bashing. I can never make a general negative statements based on whiteness. Tom didn't choose me without consideration for my race, but rather I think he chose me because of it.”
“Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.”
Source: Prejudice and Your Child
“Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.”
“Racial problems can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we finally get this right, when we get rid of racism, when we reach the post-racial society, everything is going to be okay. Well, no, because along the way here, as we've not yet been in this racial nirvana, facts on the ground have been created.”
“Racial profiling is at its fineness.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“Racial profiling is at its fineness. It is not only the words that cut deep, but the stares are worse.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.”
“Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.”
“Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together.”
“Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.”
“Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.”
“Racial segregation remains a fundamental feature of the U.S. social landscape, leaving many African-Americans with the belief that "the more things change, the more they stay the same." Overlaying these persisting inequalities is a rhetoric of color blindness designed to render these social inequalities invisible. In a context where many believe that to talk of race fosters racism, equality allegedly lies in treating everyone the same. Yet as Kimberle Crenshaw (1997) points out, "it is fairly obvious that treating different things the same can generate as much inequality as treating the same things differently.”
Source: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
“Racial segregation rendered black experience largely invisible to whites, making it easier for whites to maintain racial stereotypes about black values and culture. It also made it easier to deny or ignore their suffering.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Racial terrorism affects the lives of white people and black people and everyone, everything. Racism is contaminating. It can affect the dogs in the street. So the process of beginning to rid the country of prejudice was in itself a kind of nation-building.”
“Racial trauma is a common but underrecognized syndrome affecting millions of people of color in the Western world. Racial trauma refers to the severe mental and emotional injury caused by a multitude of experiences of racism compounded over a person's lifetime.”
Source: A Clinician's Guide to Healing the Wounds of Racial Trauma: A 12-Session CBT-Based Protocol