“Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.” MenYearsWarSelfStatesIndividualFourMovementPrideRacismActivismSelf ConfidenceAdministrationMaterialismVietnamFour YearsMarijuanaEcologyStereotypeRobotsHippieVietnam WarLiberatedCarterFourteen Author:Timothy Leary
“in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.” IfsWorldWantFirstsLongFactsIndividualTermRaceAcceptingGroupsPolicyRacismRelationLimitationLong TermGesturesDoomedBetter PlaceRace Relations Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.” IndividualBlackRacismExtremesAtmosphereAmerican SocietyIndividual Life Author:Margaret Walker
“the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.” LyingHumanityIndividualAbilityCommonMoralBreakCenturyRacismSolutionsOrdinaryAbsolutesCollectivesBlindnessImperativesBrillianceInevitabilityAbility To SeeCircularityUbiquity Book:Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race
“... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.” DifferentChoicesIndividualRacismNationalismSexismPatriarchyIndividual Choice Author:Gloria Steinem