"Humiliation, particularly when it is repeated sinks its claws deeper into the human psyche than even intense anger or happiness."

"There are more effective ways to defeat racism. The least effective way is to label white people as racists. The much better way is in fact to listen to where in any white person, or any person is coming from so that you can appreciate that they are multi-dimensional and they get the sincere sense they are being heard that therefore, they will also give you the time of day."

"What we do when we treat one another as plurals is that we actually give our so-called other, the opportunity to lower their own emotional defenses and hear where we are coming from."

"If we can establish that common ground, namely that all of us are plurals, then that will allow us to frame people with whom we potentially disagree as people with backstories that we should try to understand... We should try to understand because they have something to teach us about what it means to be human." - Irshad Manji

"The practice of labeling reduces people, any people, any individuals, to something less than we are, even if its mean in a well-meaning way."