Quote by Victor Hugo
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Quote by Victor Hugo
I am adding this post in the context of the war in Ukraine and the threat to world peace caused by Russian foreign policy.
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Race trumps everything else. If you look like you belong – you belong.
Dialogue Workshop – Extending the Conversation
Quote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
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Let’s just accept ourselves.
Dialogue Workshop – Extending the Conversation
Quote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
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Despite doing everything right, sometimes even despite being wealthy – Black people are still delegitimized.
Dialogue Workshop – Extending the Conversation
Quote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
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Maybe for black people the concept of a stereotype just doesn’t exist.
Dialogue Workshop – Extending the Conversation
Quote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
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I seek my truth. I am unapologetically black.
Dialogue Workshop – Extending the Conversation
Quote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
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In here, I feel like I am not American enough. Where I am from – I am seen as very American.
Dialogue Workshop – Extending the Conversation
Quote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
Go to postExposure Breeds Compassion
Exposure Breeds Compassion
Diversity can be impaired by split-second decisions triggered by biases. We all are capable of impeding diversity because of our narrow experiences and takes on the world. Family, culture and environment all play a part in how we make sense of everything. When it comes to the inability to practice empathy, lack of exposure to […]
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White gaze needs to be deconstructed.
Dialogue Workshop – Extending the Conversation
Quote from a political science student who participated in the Dialogue Workshop on March 29, 2022.
Go to postThe Degrees of Transculturation
The Degrees of Transculturation
Discussion at RU-N Dialogue at Express Newark. Participants spoke about the difficulties of assimilating into the norms and customs of the dominant society as an immigrant while maintaining indigenous cultures.
Go to postIs the American Dream real or just a pipeline?
Is the American Dream real or just a pipeline?
A common consensus on the falsehoods of the American Dream
Go to postWhat would it look like if Rutgers valued diversity?
Rutgers University is the most diverse university in the USA, and it should federally advocate and lobby for its diversified students!
What would it look like if Rutgers valued diversity?
Diverse students at Rutgers notice how Rutgers Newark openly promotes its diversity yet fails to offer inclusive, safe spaces and resources.
Go to postDorothea Lange image I Am An American
Dorothea Lange image I Am An American
This Dorothea Lange image was included in the article “George Takei got reparations. He says they strengthen the integrity of America” by Neda Ulaby on opb.org
Go to postThe American Promise?
What comes up for you when we say The American Promise? How would you define such a thing? Can it be kept?
The American Promise?
Promts from a tool kit created by Millions of Conversations for a dialogue workshop.
Go to postLet’s Talk About Us
We’ve reached a critical and corrosive moment of seeing one another based on party affiliation, based on stereotype and datapoint, based on assumption and conjecture. Despite out striving for something better, we find ourselves dangerously polarized and divided, The good news is we don’t have to stay here.
Let’s Talk About Us
In 2018, Millions of Conversations (Millions) partnered with M&C Saatchi World Services to conduct qualitative and quantitative research about the most effective ways to reverse these polarizing trends with a particular focus on why a majority of Americans hold anti-Muslim bias. The study, “Just Like Us,” draws on evidence from focus groups in five states […]
Go to postThe United States Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. – Preamble to the United States Constitution
The United States Constitution
The Constitution acted like a colossal merger, uniting a group of states with different interests, laws, and cultures. Under America’s first national government, the Articles of Confederation, the states acted together only for specific purposes. The Constitution united its citizens as members of a whole, vesting the power of the union in the people. Without […]
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