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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
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“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.”
― Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution
― Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution
“Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism. We are the only people who are criticized for loving ourselves. and white people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.”
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“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
― Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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256 friends
184 books
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6 friends
497 books
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47 friends
73 books
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11 friends
231 books
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19 friends
198 books
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1 friend
1 book
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93 friends
0 books
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23 friends
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