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“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“[...] Africa has a history, that is a fundamental part of our global story, and one that is worthy of a greater attention and respect than it has so far received.”
― Zeinab Badawi, An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

“Apparently some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided only that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.”
― Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II