Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Lani Guinier

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American professor Lani Guinier.
Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Lani Guinier

Carol Lani Guinier was an American educator, legal scholar, and civil rights theorist. She was the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship there. Before coming to Harvard in 1998, Guinier taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for ten years. Her scholarship covered the professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in the political process, college admissions, and affirmative action. In 1993 President Bill Clinton nominated Guinier to be United States Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, but withdrew the nomination.

As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.
In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy. — © Lani Guinier
In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.
Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.
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