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“Slavery persisted, and grew, protected by the argument that it was going away.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“Sovereignty soldiers, Black refugees, self-abolitionists, fighting through America’s history, marooned in a land they made their own, acre after acre, plot after plot, war after war, life after life.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“I am the American heartbreak— The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe— The great mistake That Jamestown made Long ago. —Langston Hughes, “American Heartbreak: 1619”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“School curricula generally treat slavery as an aberration in a free society, and textbooks largely ignore the way that many prominent men, women, industries, and institutions profited from and protected slavery.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“Negro poverty is not white poverty…. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the Negro they are a constant reminder of oppression. For the white they are a constant reminder of guilt. But they must be faced, and they must be dealt with, and they must be overcome; if we are ever to reach the time when the only difference between Negroes and whites is the color of their skin.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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