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Women of color are regularly praised for our resilience, but what’s too often overlooked is that our resilience is a response to so many forms of violence. For us, resilience is more than a noble trait; it’s a lifestyle that oppression has
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“In her Georgia misery she had pictured freedom, and it had not looked like this. Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare. Mingo”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“He told her that every one of her enemies, all the masters and overseers of her suffering, would be punished, if not in this world then the next, for justice may be slow and invisible, but it always renders its true verdict in the end.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“In Garfield’s experience, education was salvation. It had freed him from grinding poverty. It had shaped his mind, forged paths, created opportunities where once there had been none. Education, he knew, led to progress, and progress was his country’s only hope of escaping its own painful past. In”
― Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
― Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
“Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.”
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Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.”
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