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They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.

Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed," she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There...

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Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigabl...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories ...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago.That gap is the ma...

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White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy...

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Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, u...

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He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The v...

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And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all...

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If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was suppo...

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There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm ...

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It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowe...

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But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, domina...

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The sure guaranty of the peace and security of each race is the clear, distinct, unconditional recog...

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Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The de...

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Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of S...

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Vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as "mischief" and "insulting gestures" as crim...

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Michelle AlexanderThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fight...

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