Dennis Fischman

“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.”
― Maya Angelou

“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
― Montesquieu

“Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began "comparing power with power, measuring, calculating" and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt.”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

“Already, the American mind was accomplishing that indispensable intellectual activity of someone consumed with racist ideas: individualizing White negativity and generalizing Black negativity. Negative behavior by any Black person became proof of what was wrong with Black people, while negative behavior by any White person only proved what was wrong with that person.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America