Spoken Word

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“Many people imagine that the Saddam capture was some instant thing; that it was the result of lofty intelligence handed down, or CIA operatives, or overhead satellites that pinpointed his location, and troops just happened to be there to go get him. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It was the result of six months of very hard work.”
Lt. Col. Steve Russell, whose Army unit captured Saddam Hussein ⁴

“In order to write about power truly, you have to show not only how it was used, but also its effect on the people. Political power shapes peoples’ lives, and I don’t think there’s a better example of that than Robert Moses.”
Robert Caro, author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York ⁵

“One of the purposes of stereotypes is not only to simplify a group and make it a nice, clean package for you to understand, but also to alienate those other groups, to define ourselves by pointing out what we are not.”
Ryan Takemiya ’05, anti-racism educator ⁶