“Sovereignty soldiers, Black refugees, self-abolitionists, fighting through America’s history, marooned in a land they made their own, acre after acre, plot after plot, war after war, life after life.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“I am the American heartbreak— The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe— The great mistake That Jamestown made Long ago. —Langston Hughes, “American Heartbreak: 1619”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“We cannot make up for all the lives lost and dreams snatched, for all the suffering endured. But we can atone for it. We can acknowledge the crime. And we can do something to try to set things right, to ease the hardship and hurt of so many of our fellow Americans.”
― The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
― The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
“James Baldwin famously said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it is faced.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“Negro poverty is not white poverty…. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the Negro they are a constant reminder of oppression. For the white they are a constant reminder of guilt. But they must be faced, and they must be dealt with, and they must be overcome; if we are ever to reach the time when the only difference between Negroes and whites is the color of their skin.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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