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“It was necessary for black people to protest against segregation, King argued, to avoid cooperating with an evil system. If one passively accepted injustice, one enabled it to continue.”
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
“Men, again, who live up to the moral law, wont enslave their brethren.”
― The Light and Truth of Slavery. Aaron's History [1845]
― The Light and Truth of Slavery. Aaron's History [1845]
“The former slaves preferred to focus on feeling the power of God's loves, in the tradition of the invisible institution of their parents and grandparents.”
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
“Truly, the colored race are the most cheerful and forgiving people on the face of the earth. That their masters sleep in safety is owing to their superabundance of heart; and yet they look upon their sufferings with less pity than they would bestow on those of a horse or a dog.”
― Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
― Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“One thing is absolutely definite: not everything that enters our ears penetrates our consciousness.”
― The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
― The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
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