“Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!” HumansCertainBlackAnimalBenefitsAbusePraiseBreathsSlaveryExpensesCriticizeAnimal RightsHolocaustAmbiguityConvenientAnimal Abuse Author:Adela Popescu
“I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.” ThinkingWorldShowsKidsCoursesCausesBlackCivilizationAuthorityBenefitsBeatsWeakVietnamPajamas Author:Stephen King
“I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.” ThinkingYearsFirstsLooksFilmGuyBlackWhiteCareersDoubtDegreesBenefitsBallsMalesClockShirtsHatsProvenAngleBlack WomenT ShirtCompetentIncompetentWoodyTrajectoryClipBenefit Of The DoubtThermal Author:Dee Rees
“When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldBlackFieldsIndustryBenefitsHappeningsDown AndSouthWorkersSouthernMore MoneyMexicanClosingCottonMichiganMigrantsAuto IndustryClosing DownCotton FieldsMigrant Workers Author:Bell Hooks
“For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits. So many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you've been branded a felon.” MenFormLeftBlackBehindsBenefitsVoteAccessDiscriminationEmploymentErasDeniedHousingLeft BehindJuryCrowExcludedRight To VoteJim CrowBrandedFelonsAccess To Education Author:Michelle Alexander
“We are blessed to grow up in a country that is the world's leader. We are blessed to be some of the most well-educated Black persons anywhere to be found in the world. This education and talent can be used in a friendly relationship with Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Asia to develop the wealth and resources of these nations. The friendship of us with our kith and kin around the world would cause both sides to benefit exponentially, based upon how well we develop these relationships.” WorldWellsPersonsCountryUsedFoundNationsGrowsCausesSidesBlackWealthLeaderGrowing UpMiddleTalentBenefitsResourcesBlessedEastEducatedAround The WorldFriendlyMiddle EastAsiaBoth SidesCaribbeanWell EducatedBlack Person Author:Louis Farrakhan
“What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?” SeemsBlackBenefitsEmpowermentMajorityElitesRecycled Author:Desmond Tutu
“[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.” KnowsWellsBlackWhiteKnowingProduceBenefitsEnvyInequalityMeritCrowOffspringPique Author:Moderata Fonte