Michael Wright

“James Baldwin famously said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it is faced.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“This is our national truth: America would not be America without the wealth from Black labor, without Black striving, Black ingenuity, Black resistance.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

“School curricula generally treat slavery as an aberration in a free society, and textbooks largely ignore the way that many prominent men, women, industries, and institutions profited from and protected slavery.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, 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.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story