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"Had this a couple years ago but just got this updated version as Reid added a chapter on Trump and race, with which I apparently must torture myself." — Dec 06, 2016 06:28AM
"Had this a couple years ago but just got this updated version as Reid added a chapter on Trump and race, with which I apparently must torture myself." — Dec 06, 2016 06:28AM
“He did everything. He studied hard. He went to Harvard. He got married. He had children. He worked. He dreamed big. He pulled his bootstraps all the way up from his humble beginnings to the presidency. He lived the American Dream. And he was called an African Witch Doctor. People asked for his birth certificate. A congressman shouted at him "YOU LIE!" He faced the most recalcitrant Republican Congress ever that was elected by a constituency that wanted to "take the country back."If a black man can be elected as guardian of the American empire, do exactly that, and still not be shielded from racism, what hope is supposed to be left?”
― Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
― Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
“The truth is that the hard-fought victories of the Civil Rights Movement caused a reaction that stripped Brown of its power, severed the jugular of the Voting Rights Act, closed off access to higher education, poured crack cocaine into the inner cities, and locked up more black men proportionally than even apartheid-era South Africa.”
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
“The murderers are supposed to have been Jewish revisionists, an extreme party that want to be rid of the English and set up a Jewish state. I don't know how long they think the Arabs would suffer a single Jew to exist once the English went."
Jerusalem, Palestine, 7 September 1933”
― The Road to Oxiana
Jerusalem, Palestine, 7 September 1933”
― The Road to Oxiana
“To feel safe, you need to control what the people around you are going to say and do. This is not achieved by going after the root causes of violence. This is not even achieved by working to slowly improve social conditions. It is achieved through silence and disappearance, by moving the offending object or person out of sight. . . . [However] [d]o we want to live in a world that is safe? Do we want to push the homeless out of our cities and call that a victory over poverty? . . . Or do we want to do the very hard work of recognizing and addressing the actual causes of harm to women? Safety is a short-term goal and it is unsustainable. Eventually, the unaddressed causes will find new ways of manifesting themselves as problems. Pull up the dandelions all you want, but unless you dig up that whole goddamn root it's just going to keep showing back up.”
― Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
― Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
“I do not suffer from ignorance where exercise is related. I suffer from inertia.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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