Allen Roberts’s Reviews > An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America > Status Update

“…[S]elf criticism, out of which comes the highest attainments of human excellence, arises out of the power we possess of making ourselves objective to ourselves.” p. 280

“The essential prerequisite for any slave system (and arguably any form of fascism) is to condition the whole of the population in the profoundly unreasonable and ultimately self-destructive habit of not recognizing one segment of its membership as human.” p. 251

“Ignorance is always a form of unfreedom, and to be unfree is to be the passive object of external forces.” p. 246

This is one outstanding book touching on so many crucial issues… will post a review when finished. 😉

A powerhouse read, no doubt. 🤯