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Race and racism are social constructs. As society changes, so does racism.
“A genuinely seismic event in American history, the Birmingham protests cleaved the nation in two, forcing citizens of all backgrounds to take honest measure of the intersection between race and democracy in national life.”
― The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
― The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
“When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stay in it.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“Travel broadens one’s scope,” he explained. “Anytime you do any traveling, your scope will be broadened. It doesn’t mean you change, you broaden.”
― The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
― The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
“I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are.”19”
― The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
― The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
“Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people rather than policy. It's a pretty easy mistake to make: People are in our faces. Policies are distant. We are particularly poor at seeing the policies lurking behind the struggles of people.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
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