“If we want to do more than just end mass incarceration—if we want to put an end to the history of racial caste in America—we must lay down our racial bribes, join hands with people of all colors who are not content to wait for change to trickle down, and say to those who would stand in our way: Accept all of us or none.” PeopleIfsWayWantEndsHandsAmericaWaitingAcceptingColorMassDown AndLaysBribeCastesIncarcerationMass IncarcerationTrickle Down Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.” SoulBodyPainPleasureAcceptingDown AndPins Author:Socrates
“You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.” PeopleMatterWaitingAcceptingDown AndPrepared Author:Chris Patten
“It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.” ThinkingHateAcceptingDown AndTonePropositionsAccepting Things Book:The Essays Source: The Essays
“It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.” AcceptingFoolDown AndFasterPlanesUp And DownDelayedPacingMaking A Fool Of Yourself Author:Noel Coward