Quotes About Responsibility

There is a triple purpose to the existence of White privilege: (1) to advantage White Americans, (2) to disadvantage persons of color, and (3) to attribute causes to individual deficiencies, thereby relieving White society of responsibility for perpetuating inequality.

Many White Americans, however, have distorted and or conveniently used color blindness as a means of color denial or, more accurately, power denial (Neville, Awad, Brooks, Flores, & Bluemel, 2013). An understanding of White privilege ultimately unmasks a dirty secret kept hidden by White Americans: Much of what they have attained is unearned, and even if they are not overtly racist, Whites cannot choose to relinquish benefits from it.

The inability to see how the assumptions and biased practices exist in one's own beliefs and behaviors allows Whites to operate in a vacuum of naïveté and innocence that distances them from responsibility or the knowledge that their unawareness fosters complicity in the inequities of our society.

As long as biases remain hidden, however, responsibility for change at the individual, institutional, and societal levels can be avoided. The invisibility of White racial superiority and minority inferiority is a well-kept secret as long as people are not allowed to talk about it.

EXIT's justification was that until a law permitting voluntary euthanasia was passed (which would place responsibility to help primarily on physi­cians), people had no alternative but to take their dying into their own hands.

What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?

Corrival looked around. 'So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.' 'Me?' Ravel asked. 'Why do I have to start it? You're the most respected mage here. You start it, or Skulduggery.' Skulduggery shook his head. 'I can't start it. I don't like most of these people. I might start shooting.

So this," she said, "what's happening and what's going to happen, this isn't your fault. You can't control everything and not everything is your responsibility. At Croke Park you said something about how you don't want to drag me around after you so I can die beside you. I wanted to tell you then, but I didn't have the words and I didn't have the time. I'm here because I choose to be. You save my life. I save yours. That's how we work." "Until the end." "Until the end.

This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?

Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work." -Skulduggery

Fletcher appeared beside her. He peered at the baby. "Can it do any tricks yet?" "I'm still working on it. Want to hold her?" "God, no," Fletcher said laughing. "I'd drop it." "It's not an it, it's my baby sister. Go on, hold her. You won't make a mess of it, i swear. Only an idiot could drop a baby." "You always say I am an idiot." "But you're a special kind of idiot. Here." She passed Alice into his arms, and he stood there, rigid, a look of intense concentration on his face.

I could've died because you had to tie your shoelace?

The fate of the world depends upon whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives ..." ~ Skulduggery Pleasant

We've decided to get a pet," her dad announced... "Like, I don't know, a brother or a sister?

To betray is to act against, I just haven't acted at all - China Sorrows

trust you with my life," Skulduggery said. "Just not necessarily my car.

You were supposed to be keeping an eye on the place," Donegan said. "I was," Gracious yawned. "You were asleep." "I was resting my eyes." "You were snoring." "I was exercising my lungs.

Mum," she called, "we're out of milk." "Damn lazy cows," her mother muttered.

The world is bigger than you know and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are . . . Make you parents proud, and make them glad to have you living under their roof, because I leave to you my property and possessions, my assets and my royalties, to be inherited on the day you turn eighteen. – Mr Fedgewick, reading Gordon's will, to Stephanie

There is no heroism in war – there are simply things that need to be done.

Drive over a few of the little brats. That'll scare them off." "I... I don't think I can do that, sir... I just don't think we're capable of going that fast, sir.

Omen nodded. "I can do that." Colleen pressed the stop button and the tram slowed. Before she stepped off, she turned to him and said, "Help us, Omen-one-Kenobi. You're our only hope. And then she was gone. He'd been star Wars-ed.

shoulders of a skeleton, and the five people

Punishment is not the answer. Punishment is easy. It's lazy. Redemption is hard. Redemption makes you work.