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Martin Luther King Jr.
“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Martin Luther King Jr.
“Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not yet paid the full price for freedom. And whites have not yet faced the full cost of justice.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Sven Beckert
“Many historians have called this the age of 'merchant' or 'mercantile' capitalism, but 'war capitalism' better expresses its rawness and violence as well as its intimate connection to European imperial expansion. War capitalism, a particularly important but often unrecognized phase in the development of capitalism, unfolded in constantly shifting sets of places embedded within constantly changing relationships. In some parts of the world it lasted into the nineteenth century.”
Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History

Colson Whitehead
“And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.”
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

Sven Beckert
“It was on the back of cotton, and thus on the backs of slaves, that the U.S. economy ascended in the world (p.119).”
Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History

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