Kelela

Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's responsibility, to dismantle the structures that keep white people in positions of power. We do our job to thrive, to survive. To protect ourselves, to sit together and feel better and to heal.

American Musician

Martin O'Malley

The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.

American Politician

Rush Limbaugh

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.

American Entertainer

Abigail Spanberger

We must teach our children to be kinder, we must examine our own biases and be better, we must expect more of each other and our elected leaders, and most importantly, we must demand policies that focus on progress and dismantle structures that disadvantage.

Stacey Abrams

The formerly incarcerated - returning citizens - often face a cruel irony in America. Having paid their debt to society, too many are banned from the ballot box that could help them dismantle policies that essentially extend their sentences.

Katherine Moennig

I've seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It's a show business game, and it's one game I won't play.

American Actress

Richard Linklater

As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.

American Director

Aaron Ciechanover

To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.

Israeli Scientist

Winnie Byanyima

I don't think it's helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don't believe in anymore.

Ugandan Politician

Kate Mosse

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

English Author

Used when physically taking something into separate pieces.

Physical Objects

Often done methodically, with the intent to reassemble or repair.

Methodical Process

Different from destroying; parts are preserved for future use.

Not Destruction

Implies a deliberate, often gradual, ending or undoing of a system.

Planned Change

Can suggest the removal is harmful or unwanted by some.

Negative Connotation

Typically refers to complex systems, like laws or organizational policies.

Policy & Structure

Stresses on making something less complex, more user-friendly.

Reduces Complexity

Results in a change or reduction of function in the system.

Impacts Function

 Today, I'm focusing on public sector corruption, which the private sector also participates in. The second important myth to understand -- because we have to destroy these myths, dismantle them and destroy them and ridicule them -- the second important myth to understand is the one that says

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 that may sometimes say that he said something that was wrong, but then allow for -- but support his platform in other ways. You know, true co-conspiracy in the effort to dismantle white supremacy and white nationalism is not a thing that people can do on vacation.

The path to ending...

 if technology will allow us to outrun the perpetrators and dismantle the communities that are normalizing child sexual abuse around the world today. And the time to do this is now. We can no longer say we don't know the impact this is having on our children.

How we can eliminate...

 comes with social and environmental problems, dismantling them does too. E-waste is sometimes intentionally exported to countries where labor is cheap but working conditions are poor. Vast workforces, often made up of women and children, may be underpaid,

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 we need what happens in the world to reinforce what happens in our home. This is not a men's problem or a women's problem. This is everyone's problem, and we all play a role in dismantling systems of inequality.

The lies we tell...

 since the military dismantled their operations here. And if there's anything I've learned from our explorations, it's that abandoned places don't stay uninhabited for long. Oh, come on. Is this the tunnel?

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 is a reflection of how we behave in the world. But what we don't want to do is create an easy-to-use system that can amplify bias and deepen racial disparities, rather than dismantling them.

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 or raise a family or leave the world a better place without stress and discomfort. Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life. So, how do we begin to dismantle rigidity

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 this you know but it's a great feeling it's little X variable today's bust is significant agents believe that seizing money and guns helps to dismantle cartels

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 there is nothing so unfair as the equal treatment of unequal people. And that's why I am committed to working to dismantle racism. I deeply appreciate the fact

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