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“You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the world a lie, they can tell it so well that it b...”
“Partial skinning may be less painful, perhaps delay unpleasantness, how pain set in breasts, back, and belly offers less agony, some reprieve, while the skinning of fingers, nose, cheeks and lips f...”
“The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.”
“Susan Margaret Collins was born on December 7, 1952 in Caribou, Maine and is presently the senior United States Senator from Maine. Senator Collins has served in the Senate since 1997 and chaired t...”
“How a member of the churchone who had read the Good Lords biblecould sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.”
“The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.”
“I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.”
“Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.”
“I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a bigger and tougher America than any we have yet known. I feel that America's past is too shallow...”
“I did not tell you it would be okay because I never believed it would be okay.”
“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy - and i...”
“I couldnt figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when paired together. One was the inevitable, something I could not change in my life, whil...”
“But when they brought Sabira out, the crowd parted almost magically. A sea of hands rose faster than a swell and a bidding war commenced, amongst these civilized gentlemen who made their living off...”
“In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.”
“Not only is Donald Trump the most despised candidate ever, but many of the people who have made the most scathingly censorious criticisms of him are members of his own party. This is absolutely unp...”
“Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical courage was also necessary, for the Confederate Congress, on May 1, 1863, passed...”
“If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives ar...”
“The pursuit of happiness is such a key element of the American (ideological) dream that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all ...”
“The use of ghosts as a means of social control predated the Klan. Slave owners employed so-called patterollers, usually poor whites, who would patrol the countryside at night; such patrols would re...”
“Wild TimesSince Mexico accepted communism as a legitimate political party during the 1920s and allowed refugees greater flexibility of thought, it became a haven from persecution. Moreover, living ...”
