5 Quotes by Jonathan R. Miller

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which.

If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally.

Having privilege means that you have worked hard, but in a world more likely to enable, recognize, and financially reward hard work; that you have suffered, but in a world with fewer forms of suffering, with more mechanisms to prevent it, and stronger remedies when it occurs; that you are not responsible for the atrocities committed by your people in the past, but insofar as you do nothing today, you are complicit in the present created by them.

Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.