Teaching for a Culturally Diverse and Racially Just World Quotes

“Paul Lawrence Dunbar reveals another reality. We wear the mask that grins and lies, 
 It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, 
 This debt we pay to human guile; 
 With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, 
 And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, 
 In counting all our tears and sighs? 
 Nay, let them only see us, while 
 We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries 
 To thee from tortured souls arise. 
 We sing, but oh the clay is vile 
 Beneath our feet, and long the mile; 
 But let the world dream otherwise, 
 We wear the mask!308”
― Eleazar S Fernandez, Teaching for a Culturally Diverse and Racially Just World

“History has shown that the rich and powerful are far more willing to alleviate the results of poverty than to attack its causes, and that their primary preoccupation is always with order rather than justice. But history has also shown that the concern for disorder over injustice invariably produces more of both.”
― Eleazar S Fernandez, Teaching for a Culturally Diverse and Racially Just World