Brief Opinion: Selected Quotes Featured in the Media
“Did I have a flashback? No. But watching the hearings was distressing. Not just for me. I cannot tell you how many people told me they were sick, literally sick to their stomach, watching this. […] Everyone likes to remind me that I did not win [in 1991]. I like to say I won, because I shared my story and people became much more aware of a problem that has been plaguing all of us.”
— University Professor Anita Hill on the Kavanaugh-Ford hearings, in The Cut (October 2018).
“He held an abiding faith in the idea of democracy, while also remaining fiercely critical of the ways in which it had been distorted and denied to African-Americans and other oppressed people. In the age of Trump, Du Bois’ life offers a much-needed lesson in historical honesty, moral courage and democratic hope.”
— Chad Williams, chair of the African and African-American studies department,
on W.E.B. Du Bois, in a Washington Post Op-Ed (Aug. 27, 2018).
“The responsibilities of death have been outsourced. When someone dies in a hospital, oftentimes the body will be whisked away almost immediately, and family and friends won’t see it again until after it’s been embalmed.”
— Anthropologist Anita Hannig, quoted in a Washington Post Op-Ed about the
disappearance of death from Halloween (Oct. 31, 2018).
— Yehudah Mirsky, associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic studies, on the roots
of anti-Semitism, in The American Interest (Oct. 28, 2018).
— Stuart Altman, Heller health-policy professor, on video
health-care visits, in the Los Angeles Times (Aug. 17, 2018).
— Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Heller human-development and social-policy professor, on why
black boys feel less safe in white neighborhoods, in The New York Times (Aug. 14, 2018).