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Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
“Perhaps part of the problem, he thought, was that the world was changing faster than people were able to change themselves, and the leaders in government and the press were being guided by theories and assumptions that had once worked but were now outmoded.”
― The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World
― The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World
“Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement—not replace—the process of change through legal recourse. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.”
― Why We Can't Wait
― Why We Can't Wait
“Was that really it? I sat pondering the absence of meaning. Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?”
― El túnel
― El túnel
“We only hate the results of people. But people, Henry, aren’t just results. They’re a process.”
― What Makes Sammy Run?
― What Makes Sammy Run?
“Schoolchildren wonder out loud how discrimination could ever have been legal in this great land of ours. Rarely are they told that it is still legal.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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