In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Interpretation
Acknowledging race is essential to combat racism, and equality sometimes requires differential treatment.
In this quote, Harry A. Blackmun emphasizes that to effectively address and overcome racism, society must first recognize and understand the significance of race. He suggests that genuine equality cannot be achieved by ignoring racial differences; instead, it calls for acknowledging those differences and sometimes responding with tailored approaches to ensure fair treatment for all individuals.
In practice
During a diversity training session, one could share this quote to emphasize the importance of recognizing race in discussions about equality.
I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If we can ever get that straightened out, it will help. But, of course, the real answer to it is to do away with the death penalty.
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.
Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.
You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one...'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore, moves along the path of ecumenism, the path of unity of faith, of evangelical witness and authentic fraternity.
No one can posses an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on the rocks. No one can posses the beautiful things of this Earth, but we can know them and love them. It is through such moments that God reveals himself to mankind.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
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