„Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.“

— James Baldwin

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„I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this — which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never — the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.“
— James Baldwin
„People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.“
— Michel Foucault
„I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.“
— Susan B. Anthony
„Hungary is a country that has suffered a lot with communism in the past, a people that knows what dictatorship is. The Brazilian people still do not know what dictatorship is, do not know what it is to suffer at the hands of these people.“
— Jair Bolsonaro
„Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.“
— Margaret Thatcher