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At some point it is no longer a question of whether we can learn this history but whether we have the collective will to reckon with it.
“William Lloyd Garrison endorsed the view that the act was “so coldblooded, so inhuman and so atrocious, that Satan himself would blush to claim paternity to it.”
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
“I thought of the women who came alone to Sabbathday Lake, covered in bruises, intent on escaping such circumstances. And the widows who had been left destitute. A sense I had long before I could put it into words: that men were a danger to women. That women must find or build spaces of our own in order to be safe. The Shakers promised respite. Stability. Peace. Nonjudgment. Standing there in a hat shop in Portland, I felt intensely proud of the Shakers, as if they were still mine to be proud of. I thought of the true kindness I had known all my life.”
― The Cliffs
― The Cliffs
“One of the great ironies of sugar’s history in the United States is that the brutal work of the enslaved created an industry whose success in producing unhealthy food for mass consumption has taken its greatest toll on Black communities today.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“Congress forced only one group of enslavers to provide land to their former captives—the Confederacy’s Native American allies.”
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
“While many civil rights leaders pleaded for peace in the streets, insisting that any form of violent rebellion would dishonor King’s memory and legacy, others refused to condemn the violence. Floyd McKissick, the national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), told The New York Times on the night of King’s murder that his death meant the end of nonviolence as a political strategy. “Nonviolence is a dead philosophy, and it was not the black people that killed it. It was the white people that killed nonviolence and white racists at that.”82 That sentiment was echoed by other Black activists and leaders, such as Julius Hobson, who headed a civil rights group called ACT: “The next black man who comes into the Black community preaching nonviolence should be violently dealt with by the Black people who hear him. The Martin Luther King concept of nonviolence died with him. It was a foreign ideology anyway—as foreign to this violent country as speaking Russian.”83”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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