Confronting Privilege Quotes

#1. I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.

Fran Lebowitz

#2. Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.

Gene Luen Yang

#3. Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.

David Gordon

#4. Sometimes going back to the beginning is the only way.

Rachel Hauck

#5. Well nothing is real, is that what you say? Everything's fake so you're running away ...

Kate Nash

#6. We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#7. Everyone marched as fast or slow as he liked.

Ken Liu

#8. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Octavio Paz

#9. Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall.

Timothy Findley

#10. So,' Nico said, 'since we're going to be spending at least a year seeing each other at camp, I think I should clear the air.' Percy's smile wavered. 'What do you mean?

Rick Riordan

#11. We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

Martin Luther King Jr.