We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For Quotes

“when we fly and when we acknowledge the wind beneath our wings, we become the hope this dark world desperately needs.”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

“The price the white American paid for his ticket was to become white—and, in the main, nothing more than that, or, as he was to insist, nothing less.”31 That alchemical transformation, which leaves behind the particulars of the Old World and requires the captivity of those darker souls, “has choked many a human being to death here.”32”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

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― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

“democracy is to flourish, we must cultivate democratic dispositions in which we, along with others, demonstrate in our doings a caring outlook toward others and assume the responsibility for setting forth intelligently some ideal of a collective good life. To my mind, this describes the Black freedom struggle at its best.”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

“My reading of pragmatism insists that human beings, fragile and fallen though we may be, must bear the responsibility of securing by practical means the values we most cherish. The fate of the world is in our hands after all, as Toni Morrison suggested in her Nobel lecture.27”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

“It is in the hard work within and against our environments that individuality takes shape. “We must have an antagonism in the tough world for all the variety of our spiritual faculties, or they will not be born,” he wrote in “Man the Reformer.”14 Ralph”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

“of self-trust, see themselves, as Baker insisted they do, as the leaders they have been looking for.”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

“Donald Trump was at the center of it all, but he was not the cause. This was the ugly underside of the United States. Trump simply turned the country over so that all could see the shit hidden underneath.”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

“The nation had turned its back on the sacrifices of these men and had “repressed the details of the shameful abandonment of those goals for which they had given their lives.” That betrayal of both the ideal of democracy and the memory of those who gave their lives for it haunted the country. It was a denial of the past, of history and its relevance to American life and its significance to any robust sense of American individuality and identity. “A discontinuity had been”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

“Grief felt like the heat of a Mississippi August. Sticky. Suffocating. People did not die right, and, where I am from, where the Spanish moss hangs from bald cypress trees and casts dark shadows on the river water, when people don’t die right, they refuse to stay in the ground. The ghosts haunt us with our memories and loneliness as their weapons.”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For