Derrick Bell Quotes
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Derrick Bell Quotes & Sayings
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The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.
— Derrick Bell
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
— Derrick A. Bell
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
— Derrick A. Bell
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.
— Derrick Bell
We must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
— Stephen Jay Gould
My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.
— Derrick Bell
The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?
— Jose Mourinho
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
— Derrick Bell
It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
— Derrick Bell
All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.
— Derrick Bell
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
— Derrick A. Bell
I live to harass white folks.
— Derrick Bell
Never re-elect anybody
— Kinky Friedman
