“The real establishment that needed to be overthrown was not the Welfare Department or the complacent affluent or the slum landlords, but the establishment in each of us that had its own dole system, that did not want to be denied its little comforts and had condemned the real self to a dim and dingy […]
Do we know for certain what of ourselves can be attributed to race? What is distinctly racial about us as human beings? What is human about being a member of a race? Is our humanity defined by our race? And are we moreso racial beings than human beings as there are descriptions of socially colored […]
It is a difficult task, searching the self for answers that don’t belong. They were perhaps left with us in haste with the thought that we would return them or throw them away later. An experience of prejudice as either witness or victim, the use of a racial slur at the dinner table that just […]
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.” ~Albert Einstein “I went for the jugular question.” ~ […]
“Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the depths of the sea. On frequent journeys, I have faced dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from […]