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“The injured have no blame. Let it fall on those who injure.”

“Only the strong go crazy, the weak just go along”

All the differences between the north and the south during the Civil War were economic, not moral

Northern White men refused to enlist in Civil War for fear of losing their jobs to Black men. When the draft was enacted, Whites took the streets and brutally beat and murdered every Black person they could get their hands on

Estimated between 400-1,000 Blacks were killed as a result of the New York Draft Law Riots

“Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.”

“When you don’t know what’s going on it the world, you’re at a definite disadvantage.”

One of the biggest reasons why it’s so important to diversify your reading

“Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.”

“The rich have always used racism to maintain power.”

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who are oppressing them.”

“It has always intrigued me how the world can be so beautiful and so ugly at the same.”