Micro Aggression Quotes

#1. Micro-aggression - The plastic gun of racism; you can sneak this one through security most of the time because it is comprised of nonracist ways of being racist, nonsexist ways of being sexist, and the like. E.g., You're not like other BLANK people, or, You speak English very well.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#2. I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.

Claudia Rankine

#3. This is the culture of the micro-aggression, where people literally seek out opportunities to be offended....Victim status is so desirable that it's constantly faked or exaggerated, and claims that one is not a victim are met with indignation.

David French

#4. I heard someone say that concern over the [Confederate] Flag is sensitivity to micro-aggressions, to which my response is to say that kidnapping and enslaving people, breaking up families, terrorizing families, if that's not a macro-aggression, I don't know what is.

Russell D. Moore

#5. The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

Ron Silver

#6. 'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman

Margaret Thatcher

#8. When a man wants you to see his house of pain, he'll open the door and invite you in.

Dannika Dark

#9. I can hold you up with one hand, but you can balance me on your fingertips.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. Random Acts of Kindness [10w]
Performing random acts of kindness invites random acts of imitation.

Beryl Dov

#11. A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

Ovid

#12. Rich people expect to succeed.

T. Harv Eker

#13. You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.

Laura Donnelly

#14. Besides, taking a chance on romance is a dance in tight pants. It's risky but frisky. But make the right move and your in the groove.

Lisi Harrison

#15. Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

Martin Freeman