“The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.” MenWorldLongHas BeensCultureGivenWhiteThis WorldCivilizationConsequenceAccountsSpreadWidePsychologicalInevitableProportionMassiveProtectedMaterialisticUniversalityDiffusion Author:Ruth Benedict
“On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.” ThinkingWellsChildrenStatesWholeFactsHousePresidentJusticeWhiteUnitedUnited StatesTakenBearsCriticismAccountsTrialsChiefsMy ChildrenConsiderationWhite HouseTemperamentChief Justice Author:William Howard Taft
“I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding. They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.” PeopleNeedsTryingBelieveI BelieveProcessUnderstandingCommunityWhiteColorAccountsAddHistoricalPrivilegeChecksInteraction Author:Bocafloja
“If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.” PeopleIfsMenWritingFirstsBigsVoiceWhiteInterestingHappenedAccountsHistoricalEstablishmentNonfictionWhite ManReally InterestingUmbrella Author:Isabel Allende
“The information that the Secret Service shared with the White House included hotel records and firsthand accounts - the same types of evidence the agency and military relied on to determine who in their ranks was involved.” HouseWhiteSecretRecordsMilitaryInformationTypeInvolvedEvidenceAccountsDetermineAgencyHotelWhite HouseNotableSecret Service Author:Carol D. Leonnig
“It's part of the strategy to remind people who Hillary Rodham Clinton actually is. If others aren't going to hold her account for her full record, then, yes, we will. And her record includes naming and blaming women who came in contact with her husband, whether it was consensual relationships like Monica Lewinsky, an intern at the White House with him as President, completely debasing the office of the White House - the office of The Presidency - or Jennifer Flowers, 12-year affair while he was Governor of Arkansas.” PeopleIfsYearsHousePresidentWhiteRecordsFlowerHusbandOfficeAccountsBlameStrategyClintonAffairContactWhite HouseGovernorsPresidencyJenniferArkansasMonicaHillary Rodham Clinton Author:Kellyanne Conway
“In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.” RealityUsedWhiteColorAccountsHistoricalExtremesLegacyRangeWhite SupremacyBlacknessSupremacy Author:Kerry James Marshall
“No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.” Has BeensAmericaFightingWhiteRaceDyingBattleDiversityAccountsSocial JusticeGraveyardFoxholes Author:John F. Kennedy
“People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.” PeopleShouldKindDoeFactsOrderSocialWhiteMoralEffectsAccountsPointingComplacencyConsoleBankruptcyWretchedness Author:James A. Baldwin
“The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.” MeanStillsScienceUniverseImaginationWhiteVisionSunAirSkyMountainStandingAccountsBluePursuitScalesSnowRangeValleysInfinityStillnessSummitStretchingSurveysDazzlingEverest Book:A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar : with Commentary Source: A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar : with Commentary