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“As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.”

Way Nations Voice Challenges White Essentials Racism Gains Female Hearing Progressive White Supremacy Constructive Supremacy Female Voice

Author:Bell Hooks

“Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.”

People Principles Circumstances Gains Hearing Ministers

Book:For God Alone

Source: For God Alone

“It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.”

Ideas Enough Impossible Gains Hearing Good Enough Adequate Fooling Ourselves

Book:The tangled wing: biological constraints on the human spirit

Source: The tangled wing: biological constraints on the human spirit

“Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.”

Men Years Doe Ends Law Answers Failing Doors Gains Ears Strive Seeking Hearing Perceive Strife Admittance

Book:The Trial

Source: The Trial

“He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)