Nicholas Guyatt > Quotes

“Colonization proposals were crafted by intellectuals, reformers, and politicians--men (and occasionally women) who saw themselves as "liberal" in their sentiments. To be liberal in the early United States involved specific beliefs and actions: it meant that you embraced the rational thought of the Enlightenment, that you manifested a Christian benevolence to others, and most importantly, that you were determined to reject the temptations of "prejudice.”
― Nicholas Guyatt, Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation