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“You cannot abolish bonds of kinship cemented in faith, religion, culture, tradition, and laws. But a nation? A nation can be destroyed.”
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
“When we give people names that they did not give themselves, we erase the identity they and their ancestors fought for. The labels we give them come preloaded with definitions limited by our imaginations.”
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
“The West’s adversarial political system, in which all manner of decisions were made by majority rule, was little more than a refined version of civil war, replacing one form of coercion (fighting) with another (voting).”
― To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
― To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
“Colonizers often tell themselves stories that the places they have colonized were in desperate need of saving—that their colonizing was redemptive.”
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
“Hawkins and the U.S. government knew that the concept of private property must take hold. They knew that communalism among the Creeks provided strength, but you can divide and conquer a nation more easily with private property if you pit family estate against family estate.”
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
― We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
Non Fiction Book Club
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This group is for anyone who enjoys Non Fiction. Genres discussed here include Histories, Autobiographies, Biographies, Memoirs, Science and Technolog ...more
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Click HERE for the latest group announcements. "It reminded me of ____ but in space." "I read ____ in high school, and actually liked it." "It's ...more
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A forum for friendly discussion of classics, literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. We also love movies and art. Don't ask to join th ...more
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We're here because we like reading and we like chatting about reading. But we are here especially because we strongly believe that reading is not just ...more
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