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Jane Elliot Quotes
«We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.»
Author: Jane Elliot
«Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.»
Author: Jane Elliot
«No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.»
Author: Jane Elliot
«We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.»
Author: Jane Elliot
«I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes.»
Author: Jane Elliot
«450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children - and hundreds of thousands more Iraqi children will die if there is war - you have to believe that God will judge us very harshly for this.»
Author: Jane Elliot
«About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.»
Author: Jane Elliot
«I get the same results with the exercise in Berlin or in the Netherlands that I do in the U.S. or Australia or Curacao. And what's even more distressing is the fact that I've gotten the same results using the exercise with adults in Scotland and Australia in the year 2002 that I got using the exercise with children in Riceville, Iowa, in 1968.»
Author: Jane Elliot
«Age is how we determine how valuable you are.»
Author: Jane Elliot
«I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?»
Author: Jane Elliot