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“For people who had been prohibited from learning to read and write as slaves, reading offered tangible proof that they were really free.”
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
“The separation phase of leaving my previous environment broke my heart; but that breaking is necessary for an individual to be able to connect with what allows them to begin to rebuild.”
― You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
― You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
“It’s like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all’s well. You get off it and the next thing you know you’re lost if you’re not lucky. And then someone has to send out a searching party.”
― Pet Sematary
― Pet Sematary
“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
“The desire to read the Bible for themselves - the Bible the slaveholders had so long misrepresented to them- motivated a good many former slaves to seek education.
For Northern teachers, whether white or black, education had a moral purpose. In addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, they believed schools ought to instill habits of thrift, honesty, punctuality, temperance, and discipline to the ex-slaves, who seemed to be lax about these moral virtues. The former slaves, however, insisted God was not going to punish them for every little sin. For them the essence of religion was not in observing rules and regulations, but in experiencing the power of God's grace within their hearts.”
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
For Northern teachers, whether white or black, education had a moral purpose. In addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, they believed schools ought to instill habits of thrift, honesty, punctuality, temperance, and discipline to the ex-slaves, who seemed to be lax about these moral virtues. The former slaves, however, insisted God was not going to punish them for every little sin. For them the essence of religion was not in observing rules and regulations, but in experiencing the power of God's grace within their hearts.”
― Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans
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