Radical empathy is not about you and what you think you would do in a situation you have never been in and perhaps never will. It is the kindred conn… - Isabel Wilkerson

Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place

Choose not to look, however, at your own peril. The owner of an old house knows that whatever you are ignoring will never go away. Whatever is lurking will fester whether you choose to look or not. Ignorance is no protection from the consequences of inaction. Whatever you are wishing away will gnaw at you until you gather the courage to face what you would rather not see.

We are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom.