"As we move toward creating a society within which we can each flourish, ageism is another distortion of relationship which interferes without vision. By ignoring the past, we are encouraged to repeat its mistakes. The “generation gap” is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memories of the community, nor ask the all important question, “Why?” This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to invent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread. We find ourselves having to repeat and relearn the same old lessons over and over that our mothers did because we do not pass on what we have learned, or because we are unable to listen."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Audre Lorde, : Essays and Speeches |date=1984 |publisher=Crossing Press |isbn=978-0-89594-142-8 |page=116}}
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ageism
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Ageism
2 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Ageism →
Related Quotes
"Any age can be viewed as "the wrong age" for a woman, allowing her capacity to be questioned and her fitness for lead…"
"By the mid-seventeenth century, depictions of s, animals, and plants had officially been declassed to the status of i…"
"The work of women artists, which often transgresses the racial, ethnic, and gender dictates of society, asks us to co…"
"We know little of the practice of the arts by women in ancient times. The degraded condition of the sex in Eastern co…"
"After studying the optical effects of the , in 1960 began to make the extremely precise pictures for which she is kno…"
"Why, yes, of course I wrote all the Arab of Mesopotamia. I've loved the reviews which speak of the practical men who …"
"Some of the most inclusive and visionary ideas of human liberation have historically been formulated by those on the …"
"To be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body. As black Americans living in a small Kentuc…"
"It needs to be acknowledged once more that reality is best viewed from the sidelines, and that the poor are possessed…"