“Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.” PeopleThinkingWellsChildrenDoeDifferentGuyPartyRaceFootballTheoryDiseaseRacismFolksBritishIndianHeritageSupporterHostileBad GuysPolicemenUneducatedDifferent Races Author:Trevor Phillips
“There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.” MenWarEndsMatterHardCharacterBornTroubleHe ManDiseaseFolksHard TimesFamine Author:Louis L'Amour
“Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.” TryingMovingStudyDiseaseFolksMedicalSymbolsJudgementComparisonPerfectionismExhaustionResearchersStatus Symbol Author:Brené Brown
“The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with asthma or older folks dealing with heart and lung disease from the pollutions created by the burning of these fossil fuels, may not be reflected in the prices of fossil fuels, but that does not mean we aren't paying a high price for them.” HeartMayMeanChildrenDoeCostDiseaseSickFolksBurningAtmosphereFuelPollutionFossilsLungsFossil FuelDumpedAsthmaHigh PricesSick Children Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.” ThinkingWantChildrenStillsMomentsGirlSidesWhiteColorBabyPrayingDiseaseRacismTownsFolksDirtyLoudThat MomentI PrayBaby Girl Book:The Help Source: The Help
“Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!” MenWorldYoungHumanityCultureBlackChanceWalksRacePovertyIgnoranceColorCivilizationHealthyDiseaseIntelligentFolksDevotionLiftsYoung ManYoung WomenBannerUnafraid Author:W. E. B. Du Bois