Notable Quotable 266

May 07, 2024

Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices. Where there are no mass graves, no one notices. American outrage is always for show. It has a shelf life.

- Percival Everett, The Trees

The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them.

- John Rucyahana

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

- Mike Norton

Even today the United States still has not officially recognized genocide in its history.

- Leah Myers

Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.

- John Lewis

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I learned that racism, like most systems of oppression, isn’t about bad people doing terrible things to people who are different from them but instead is a way of maintaining power for certain groups at the expense of others.

- Alicia Garza

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don’t speak out ain’t nobody going to speak out for you.

- Fannie Lou Hamer

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

- James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

- Bob Marley

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

- Albert Schweitzer