Sublime

General George C. Marshall—essentially

people!

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”—a

“The ultimate logic of racism is genocide,”

observation—“Hope is what is fed to those who are being slaughtered so they won’t fight what is coming”—

Wells was best known as a journalist for exposing the lies behind the justification for lynching. Negroes charged with recklessly eyeballing a White woman, or worse, were often people who had found prosperity and respect despite the constraints of Jim Crow. The lynchings put them back in their place. Wells nearly met a similar fate, but escaped as

This, it would seem, is yet another example of white privilege—to retain humanity in the face of inhumanity. For criminals who defy our understanding of danger, the cultural threshold for forgiveness is incredibly low.

Racist

«C’erano quaranta avvocati di parte civile, e io ero solo. Il che significa che ognuno di loro valeva appena un quarantesimo di me. Ricordo che prima del processo Roland Dumas, futuro ministro di Mitterrand, mi ha detto che sarebbe stato nominato da un’associazione di partigiani. “Che ne pensi?”. Gli ho risposto: “Non ho paura di te, ma te lo scons