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Just As I Am
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You always seek to control others when you are not in full ownership of yourself.
“The genius of America lies in its capacity to forge a single nation from peoples of remarkably diverse racial, religious, and ethnic origins…. The American Creed envisages a nation composed of individuals making their own choices and accountable to themselves, not a nation based on inviolable ethnic communities…. It is what all Americans should learn, because it is what binds all Americans together.”
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
“History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals.
I attest to this: the world is not white; it never was white, cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.”
― I Am Not Your Negro
I attest to this: the world is not white; it never was white, cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.”
― I Am Not Your Negro
“Take your time investing so much emotion into other people's behavior. Many philosophies instruct us never to become invested in the behavior of others.”
― StarChild 000000088: A journey of Courage, Growth and Love
― StarChild 000000088: A journey of Courage, Growth and Love
“A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind—the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy,” Robinson said. He added that he now knew “how it felt to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.”40”
― How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
― How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
“Being Southern means carrying a responsibility to shake off the comforting blanket of myth and see ourselves clearly. I was bringing a child into this world, and into our long history of trying to do the right think while benefiting mightily from the wrong thing, and I wanted her to see it clearly without the nostalgia that so often softens my anger and desire to tear it down and build a new world in its place.”
― Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
― Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
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