Paul Ortiz
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“The United States drove itself to civil war because the society valued profits over Black humanity,”
― An African American and Latinx History of the United States
― An African American and Latinx History of the United States
“that the ability of oppressed people throughout the world to exercise genuine self-determination would strengthen liberty in the United States. This idea of emancipatory internationalism was born of centuries of struggle against slavery, colonialism, and oppression in the Americas. When Martin Luther King connected the lives of Vietnamese villagers with the prospects of Black youths in South Central Los Angeles he was drawing on an extraordinary fountain of experiential wisdom.”
― An African American and Latinx History of the United States
― An African American and Latinx History of the United States
“The people of that neighborhood, it seems, take a peculiar interest in the support of the system of Slavery, flattering themselves, of course, that it is a patriotic love of the Union, and of justice, but like all the patriotism that goes by the name now-a-days, it is easily resolved into a base love of dollars and cents.”
― An African American and Latinx History of the United States
― An African American and Latinx History of the United States
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