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“Abroad, authoritarians and dictators win elections and reshape democracies into parodies of freedom. The same world leaders who once feared disappointing American leaders now use our compromised elections to justify their own behavior.”
― Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
― Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
“The right to be seen, the right to be heard, the right to direct the course of history are markers of power.”
― Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
― Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
“Everything that happens within the created Order, no matter how small, has its effect. If you are angry, that anger is added to all the hate with which the Echthroi would distort the melody and destroy the ancient harmonies. When you are loving, that lovingness joins the music of the spheres.”
― A Swiftly Tilting Planet
― A Swiftly Tilting Planet
“There are lessons to be learned from history — but generally those lessons are only known to those who read books, not to those who ban them.”
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“Many thought of the election of Barack Obama, not as the end of racism, but certainly as a turning point. And it was. But for many, President Obama's election was a turning point in a different direction. It spurred a backlash among white supremacists invested in maintaining the status quo.
It can be no coincidence that the carnage of the Voting Rights Act so central to the Shelby decision occurred during the presidency of our first-ever Black president. It is no coincidence that in the decade since Obama's election, voter suppression has gained more momentum, velocity, and animosity than it had in the previous three elections combined. Since Shelby County v. Holder, voter suppression has taken on more pervasive and pernicious forms than ever before.”
― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
It can be no coincidence that the carnage of the Voting Rights Act so central to the Shelby decision occurred during the presidency of our first-ever Black president. It is no coincidence that in the decade since Obama's election, voter suppression has gained more momentum, velocity, and animosity than it had in the previous three elections combined. Since Shelby County v. Holder, voter suppression has taken on more pervasive and pernicious forms than ever before.”
― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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