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“For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.”
― Alan Turing: The Enigma
― Alan Turing: The Enigma
“Katherine Johnson knew: once you took the first step, anything was possible.”
― Hidden Figures
― Hidden Figures
“But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. Indeed, you much be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you. And you must be responsible for the bodies of the powerful- the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find his excuse in your furtive movements. And this is not reducible to just you- the women around you must b responsible for their bodies in a way that you will never know. You have to make your peace with the chaos, but you cannot lie. You cannot forget how much they took from us and how they transfigured our very bodies into sugar, tobacco, cotton, and gold.”
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“Slavery existed in the African states, and it was sometimes used by Europeans to justify their own slave trade. But, as Davidson points out, the “slaves” of Africa were more like the serfs of Europe—in other words, like most of the population of Europe. It was a harsh servitude, but they had rights which slaves brought to America did not have, and they were “altogether different from the human cattle of the slave ships and the American plantations.”
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
― A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
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