I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

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I’ve already blogged this before but it basically sums up my entire philosophy much better than I ever could so here we are.

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gonna put this quote up on the slide at the end of my sociology intro course this semester because yes

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