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"Alexander McGillivray could teach Mr. "Art of the Deal" a thing or two. Presenting himself as the sole leader of the Creek people, he played the countries who courted him off one another, winning many privately enriching concessions along the way, while frustrating natives and colonialists alike. Still, he managed to protect Creek lands & culture for another generation, a solace not afforded other Indian nations." — Mar 07, 2019 10:38PM
"Alexander McGillivray could teach Mr. "Art of the Deal" a thing or two. Presenting himself as the sole leader of the Creek people, he played the countries who courted him off one another, winning many privately enriching concessions along the way, while frustrating natives and colonialists alike. Still, he managed to protect Creek lands & culture for another generation, a solace not afforded other Indian nations." — Mar 07, 2019 10:38PM
“the wheels of history are always turning and there is no knowing who will be run over next.”
― Call Me Zebra
― Call Me Zebra
“When you told me that I want too much, I considered how much you take.”
― Heart Berries
― Heart Berries
“There has been a tendency to personify racism in the figure of a working-class white redneck who dislikes Black people and spouts hateful things, as opposed to a middle-or upper-class white person who might decry such hatefulness but still embraces racially unjust policies.”
― A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
― A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
“he who looks too hard for any particular thing, though he may find it, will certainly miss the most wondrous and strange things he passes, though they stare him in the face.”
― Census
― Census
“Do not be daunted by the insurmountability of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it.”
― Hebraic Literature: Translations From the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
― Hebraic Literature: Translations From the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
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