Elliot Jaspin

“Faced with an inconvenient history, the first defense is silence.”
― elliot jaspin, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America

“Words and terms are born out of a need to describe the world. But because the victors, who get to write the history, had little need to describe the fate of the conquered, the words did not exist soon enough to describe and ultimately prevent the wholesale destruction of black communities in America.”
― Elliot Jaspin, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America