Patricia J. Williams Quotes

• 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.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Lying, Ubiquity, Racism

  Patricia J. Williams (2016). “Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race”, p.68, Macmillan

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• the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Color, Racism, Confusion

  Patricia J. Williams (2016). “Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race”, p.4, Macmillan

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• In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.

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  Islands, Rights, Law

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• Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Apology, Doors, Feminist

  Patricia J. Williams (1997). “The Rooster's Egg”

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• witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Hunting, Age, Witch

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Vegetables

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• to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Black, Female, Lawyer

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• Las polémicas de la radio de derechas están poniendo nada menos que el odio en las ondas, en el mercado, eligiéndolo para cargos públicos, enseñándolo en las escuelas y exaltándolo como libertad.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Hate, Teaching, School

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Thinking, Mad, Curtains

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• La eterna fórmula de supervivencia de Viktor Frankl. Uno de los textos psiquiátricos clásicos de nuestro tiempo, El hombre en busca de sentido es una meditación sobre el don irreductible del propio consejo ante el gran sufrimiento, así como un recordatorio de la responsabilidad que cada uno de nosotros tiene al valorar la comunidad de nuestra humanidad. Hay pocos desafíos más sabios, más amables o más reconfortantes que los de Frankl.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Responsibility, Men, Community

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• Martin Luther El discurso "Tengo un sueño" de King en 1963 fue un hito emocionante en el movimiento por los derechos civiles, tan perdurable que tendemos a atribuir su poder abrasador a una especie de magia. Pero la meditada retrospección de Gary Younge sobre su significado nos recuerda todos los micromomentos de transformación entre bastidores -la reflexión y la preparación, la visión y la revisión- que alimentaron ese magnífico relámpago de la historia.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Dream, Kings, Rights

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• Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Coffee, Land, Towns

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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