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Princeton University’s first graduate student, future president James Madison, brought one slave with him to campus and another to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The latter he had to free: all that talk of liberty had ruined him, a poison to the rest of the plantation. He took the former home with him.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
“We’re tired of being mistreated. We are tired of dying for nothing. And God wants us to take a stand,” Hamer argued. “And the only way that we can change the system in the State of Mississippi is by going to the courthouse, registering to vote, but you got to stand up. Freedom is not something that’s put in your lap. You will have to go to the
... See moreKeisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
«Carta desde la cárcel de Birmingham», de Martin Luther King, Jr. y llegué al siguiente párrafo: Tengo que confesar que en los últimos años he quedado profundamente desencantado con los blancos moderados. Casi he llegado a la triste conclusión de que el gran palo en las ruedas en el tránsito de los negros a la libertad no es el Consejo de
... See moreGlennon Doyle • Indomable: Deja de complacer, empieza a vivir (Urano Testimonios) (Spanish Edition)
Hamer worked to help others
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
The truth of this text is revealed in the contemporary struggle between good in the form of freedom and justice, and evil in the form of oppression and colonialism. Of the approximately 3,000,000,000 people in our world, more than 1,900,000,000—a vast majority—live on the continents of Asia and Africa. Less than two decades ago most of the Asian
... See moreMartin Luther King Jr. • Strength to Love

Throughout black history Scripture was used for a definition of God and Jesus that was consistent with the black struggle for liberation.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
You cannot understand freedom if you do not conquer what made you a slave.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
And like Douglass’ master, the former slaveholders realized that ‘… if you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell. Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world.’