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“You can’t expect civic virtue from a disfranchised class … The first item in the program of self-government is to drag the whole population well above the misery line.”
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
When the underprivileged demand freedom, the privileged at first react with bitterness and resistance.
Martin Luther King Jr. • Strength to Love
“I’ve seen too many miseries and too many tricks. They say we should pull ourselves up by the bootstraps but how the hell we gonna do that when the man keeps stealing away the boots?”34
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
They would sometimes sing the most pathetic sentiment in the most rapturous tone, and the most rapturous sentiment in the most pathetic tone.
Frederick Douglass • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“none of us who toil for our daily bread are free. At one time…we were chattel slaves; today we are, one and all, white and black, wage slaves.”
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
Twelve Years a Slave: Plus Five American Slave Narratives, Including Life of Frederick Douglass, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Life of Josiah Henson, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Up From Slavery
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then she told the story of her own experiences with state-sanctioned violence—she recounted the details of the severe beating she received in that Winona jail cell in 1963.12 As she reflected on her own painful experiences and the experiences of other Black people in the South, Hamer could not help but to “question America.” “Is this America,” she
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