Reparations USA Quotes

“It's a bunch of people with master's degrees coming in and using us as guinea pigs. … Because they think they're social workers. But their minds work like anthropologists or missionaries trying to save the natives. They're so out of touch from our experience. They've never suffered, they've never been desperate—so the ideas that work in their world just won't take down here.”
― Philip Wyeth, Reparations USA

“It's a bunch of people with master's degrees coming in and using us as guinea pigs. … Because they think they're social workers. But their minds work like anthropologists or missionaries trying to save the natives. They're so out of touch from our experience. They've never suffered, they've never been desperate—so the ideas that work in their world just won't take down here.
-Nolan Simmons”
― Philip Wyeth, Reparations USA

“Everyone thinks their revolution is about to break out and win the day.”
― Philip Wyeth, Reparations USA

“Today your ancestors may hang in effigy because of the crumbling documents that survived long enough to be scanned, but tomorrow you will be stored in a comprehensive 3D dossier and dissected without context or empathy by future historians, social scientists, judges, and jailers.”
― Philip Wyeth, Reparations USA