Andrew

“I think now of the old rule that held that should a boy be set upon in someone else's chancy hood, his friends must stand with him, and they must all take their beating together. I now know that within this edict lay the key to all living. None of us were promised to end the fight on our feet, fists raised to the sky.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“If a person cannot imagine a future, then we would say that that person is depressed. But fi a country cannot envision a future, how do we describe its condition?”
― Darryl Pinckney, Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics

“So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they encourages us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say "discover," they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“Capitalism is not designed to meet human need; it is designed to generate profit. This means not only robbing workers of our humanity and life, but also the soil, the air, the planet.”
― Hadas Thier, A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics