Degraded Quotes

“Whiteness–the whole constellation of practices, beliefs, attitudes, emotions that are mixed up in being white–is the problem. Whiteness is degraded and depraved[…] To the degree that we accept any of the meaning that the dominant society gives to whiteness, we white people are degraded and depraved.”

“..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.”

“We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We will fling it at one another for laughs. Distort it. We will toss the story into the air at parties and howl over its ripeness. Degraded as it was, we will degrade it further. Make it more swollen. We shall render it impossibly awful, making of it the mythology of ourselves. A comfort. Proof of the trials we've survived.”

“The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.”

“If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.”

“The core of my being is the trigger for the choices I make. With each choice, my personality is enhanced or degraded.”

“. . .once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.”

“Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.”

“Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.”