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“Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.”

World Voice White Ignorance Color Perspective General Public Gander

Book:Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

Source: Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

“It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.”

Source: Killosophy

“The white people's thought is full of ignorance. They constantly devastate the land they live on and transform the waters they drink into quagmires! There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.”

People Ifs Ends Care Water White Sky Land Ignorance Drink Sick Take Care Quagmire

Author:Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

“The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction.”

Church White Ignorance Contradiction Swedish Crimson Steeples

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.”

White Knowledge One Thing Honesty Ignorance Racism South African American Merit Black People Efficiency Dishonesty Incompetence

Book:The Negro

Source: The Negro

“[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.”

Soul White Hell Fire Ignorance Shadow Catholic My Soul Valleys Scar Superstitions Stifling Shadow Of Death Hell Fire

Book:Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

“Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're voting for Trump out of white solidarity or out of frustration that they're, quote, unquote, "losing their country". And my concern with that is that it sort of reduces the condition of the Trump voter to one of pure ignorance. And I think it's far more complicated.”

Thinking Country White Conditions Ignorance Trump Pure Losing Concern Complicated Educated Data Narrative Voting Frustration Voters Solidarity

Author:Marc Lamont Hill

“The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed.”

People Order White Ignorance Right Now Consequence Destroyed Whiteness

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine of fifty dollars and a jail sentence. . . Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then?”

Ifs Men Trying Running Law White Ignorance Fine Slavery Dollars Slave South Caught Sentences Fifty Jail Educate Running Away White Man Liable Prosecution

Author:John W. Campbell