Dean Spade Quotes

We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform.

Dean Spade

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• I would love to be a role model.

  

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• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  

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• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

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• The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

  

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• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
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• My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.

  

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• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

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• I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

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• I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Sometimes
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• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

  

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• If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

  

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• In New Hampshire, we know that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engines of economic growth in the 21st-century economy, and our state has long been defined by the entrepreneurial spirit of our people.

  

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  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

  

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  Taylor Swift
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• Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.

  

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• We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,But search of deep philosophy,Wit, eloquence, and poetry;Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Friend
  • Poetry
  • Deep

• You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Declaration
  • Affected
  • Mode

• We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform.

  

  Dean Spade
  • Change
  • Violence
  • Understand