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“Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words – even provocative or repugnant ones – are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech.”
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
― The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
“Black farmers like Henry Shepherd and his family threatened, “by their example, the whole system of servitude and forced labor which is the base of the local economy,” McCarthy wrote.”
― Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
― Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
“Nazi authorities never decided what to do with Jews in mixed marriages in Germany owing to “Aryan” partners’ reactions, which included a major protest in Berlin in February 1943.6”
― HITLER’S SHADOW - Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War
― HITLER’S SHADOW - Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War
“And the Nation echoed and enforced this self-criticism, saying: Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men? Away with the black man's ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
“no approximately correct history of civilization can ever be written which does not throw out in bold relief, as one of the great landmarks of political and social progress, the organization and administration of the Freedmen's Bureau.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
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