Richard

“The American Civil War was not exceptional in these regards but the history of the slaves’ war within the Civil War remains to be fully told.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. —TASHUNKA WITKO (CRAZY HORSE)”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

“As Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1892 autobiography, “The story of the master never wanted for narrators. The masters, to tell their story, had at call all the talent and genius that wealth and influence could command. They have had their full day in court. Literature, theology, philosophy, law and learning have come willingly to their service, and if condemned, they have not been condemned unheard.” Our part, as Douglass said, “has been to tell the story of the slave.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“For every social ill the panacea of Wealth has been urged,—wealth to overthrow the remains of the slave feudalism; wealth to raise the "cracker" Third Estate; wealth to employ the black serfs, and the prospect of wealth to keep them working; wealth as the end and aim of politics, and as the legal tender for law and order; and, finally, instead of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, wealth as the ideal of the Public School.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois: Annotated and Illustrated Edition