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CERES: Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland

Based in the University of Edinburgh

Quotes

• "Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained." Helen Keller   

• "It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." James A. Baldwin

• “Until Lions have their own historians tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter“ (Igbo, Nigeria)

• "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality – whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly."   Martin Luther King Jnr

• "Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." Holocaust Museum, Washington DC

• "Be the change you want to see in the   world"   Mahatma Gandhi

• “As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.”    Eugene McCarthy, Politician

• “We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”   Maya Angelou

• "If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."   Maya Angelou

• “Schools cannot solve the problem of racism in our society, but they should surely not contribute to it.” ( quote taken from Gillborn (1995, p1 Racism and Anti-racism in Real Schools )

• “Education is a key component to liberation, self realisation and rebuilding lives…” Aung San Suu Kyi

• "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn" Alvin Toffler, writer

• Overcome indifference, remember the words of Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892-1984)

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

• "No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck." Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist/Lecturer

• “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" Confucius (Philosopher, Teacher 551 BCE)

• "Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action" Goethe

• 'If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.'
  Aristotle

• We can't change the past, but each of us, by challenging prejudice and intolerance, can help to change the future. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Address at Holocaust Memorial Day, Westminster Hall, London, 27th January 2005

• Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
  Bob Marley

• “O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.”
  Robert Burns, Poem "To a Louse" - verse 8

• "Where after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity..." Eleanor Roosevelt

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