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And so began a vicious economic spiral. “It’s a marvel, looking back on it now,” Lippmann would later write ruefully, “that we could ever have so completely thought that a boom under such treacherous conditions was permanent.”126
On 1920s boom during a trade war.
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“we should be in union and arrayed against the Quality, if only the low whites would wager their crumbs for a slice of the whole cake.”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
“justice may be slow and invisible, but it always renders its true verdict in the end.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“So many of us who went, went with dignity and respect. And it occurred to me how absurd it was to cling to morality when surrounded by people who had none.”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
“race-day would start off in high pageantry, and then the drinking would start and the festive spirit would darken, and all the masks of fashion and breeding would fall away, until the oozing, pocked face of Elm County would lie revealed.”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
“Slavery humiliated them, because it offended a basic sense of goodness that they believed themselves to possess. And when their cousins perpetrated the base practice, it served to remind them how easily they might do the same. They scorned their barbaric brethren, but they were brethren all the same. So their opposition was a kind of vanity, a hatred of slavery that far outranked any love of the slave.”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
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