“Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity” ThinkingChildrenImportantHardChoicesFunSocialStuffJusticeSilenceIssuesSocial JusticeEngagingCompoundsCurriculumTroublesomeFluff Author:Janet Robertson
“Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.” ThinkingKnowsHardSeemsBlackJusticeCitiesStreetsLandDiversitySocial JusticeFolksStrangerGrantedEach DaySuspectsFarmsPavementCity Streets Author:Richard Wright
“We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.” HardMovingPurposeSocialJusticeTechnologyActivityDiversityConceptsSocial JusticeSelf RealizationRealizationRecognitionFulfillmentAspirationConsiderationLeisureNastyParticipationEquityConvenienceAuthoritarianismUniformityOrganizationalDogmatismPluralismPrimacyCentralizationSelf Fulfillment Author:Warren G. Bennis
“If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.” PeopleIfsHardSocialSidesBlackJusticeSocial JusticeBlack People Author:Neal Brennan
“Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.” HumansLooksPersonsCountryHardCultureJusticeHonestDemandProveAchievementDiversityStandardsSocial JusticeRecoveryExaminationHuman FreedomGreatest Achievement Author:James A. Baldwin
“It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you do not exist. It is hard to imitate a people whose existence appears, mainly, to be made tolerable by their bottomless gratitude that they are not, thank heaven, you.” PeopleKnowsMadeMatterHardCultureHeavenJusticeExistenceGratitudeDiversitySurvivalPerformancesSocial JusticeGravesTolerable Author:James A. Baldwin
“We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.” BelieveHardBlackJusticeWhitePoorSacrificeHard WorkGrewDiversityEthicsCapitalismBuiltSocial JusticeSlaveMythThriveBlack And WhiteExploitationProtestantsDeluded Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with; doing so is the first obligation of a white antiracist.” PeopleIfsFirstsHardJusticeWhiteSocial JusticeObligationContactRacistOrganize Author:Tim Wise