Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair. - Derrick Bell
The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.
- Derrick Bell
Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means … - Derrick Bell
Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means …
Courage is a finite resource, it is exhausted by the terrors we face. - Derrick Bell
Courage is a finite resource, it is exhausted by the terrors we face.
Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above… - Derrick Bell
Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above…
Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and … - Derrick Bell
Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and …
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 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.
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. - Derrick Bell
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks. - Derrick Bell
I live to harass white folks. - Derrick Bell
I live to harass white folks.
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