Dispossession Quotes

“This heroic fable of capital-intensive agriculture demeaned its labor-intensive forebears by dismissing millions of farmers as inept and unable to adjust to science and technology. This sanitized version of rural life ran parallel to that of a successful civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s that brought equal rights to all Americans.”
― Pete Daniel, Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights