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).

“When 19th-century anti-Semites said the Jews were capitalist moneybags and socialist revolutionaries both, they were right. Jews were deeply involved in both, as both represented a new kind of transnationalism [...]. (This is part of why George Soros, the liberal Socialist hedge-fund billionaire, is such an inviting target; with him you get two for one.)”

— Yehudah Mirsky, associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic studies, on the roots
of anti-Semitism, in The American Interest (Oct. 28, 2018).

“Technology like this has been around for years, but it’s largely been on the fringes, mostly for specialty medicine. The fact that a CVS MinuteClinic would start using it shows a real coming-of-age.”

— Stuart Altman, Heller health-policy professor, on video 
health-care visits, in the Los Angeles Times (Aug. 17, 2018).

“Parents teach their kids how to play down their race and show them ways to […] navigate different neighborhoods and environments, sending the message to their children that they have to be vigilant in those neighborhoods.”

— 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).

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