“If we are a truly great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“Our myths have not served us well. We are the most unequal of the Western democracies. We incarcerate our citizens at the highest rates. We suffer the greatest income inequality. Americans’ life spans are shorter than those of the people in the nations we compare ourselves to.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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