#blind

The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far less talent can succeed. The real question is whether it's harder for the people in this audience to succeed be they extraordinary, average, or below average. If it is, and I think it obvious that it is, then that's untenable in a country that purports to provide equal opportunity for all. Now of course you'll dispute my claim that it is more difficult to succeed for them. You say the battle's over. I say not only is it not over but you yourself are stationed on the frontline of the battle and have been all these years. This room and the criminal justice system as a whole is the frontline. This is where modern-day segregation lives on. ↗

— Sergio De La Pava

#colorblind-racism #courts #criminal-justice #law #prison

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#concepts #content #empty #intuitions #thoughts

We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests. ↗

— Carl Karcher

#braille #cash #crew #crew members #developed

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen! ↗

— James Thurber

#consolation #dreamed #enjoyed #i #knows

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it. ↗

— Jack Vance

#blind #computer #computers #find #hard

Hatred is blind, as well as love. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#hatred #love #well

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#ego #fear #heart #life #love

Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience. ↗

— Eric Lefkofsky

#blind #companies #currently #experience #get

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#british #follows #leads #merchant #where

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#blind eye #eye #get #great #how