The Auburn Conference Quotes

“the multiplicity of perspectives drove the audience mad. . . . Was it true of the nation as well? Was the madness the reality? Or was the noble ideal the reality? Or was it both? Somewhere, Douglass had called the Constitution a document “at war with itself,” enshrining both the rationales for injustice and the means of dismantling the injustices it contained. Another answer to the question “What is”
― Tom Piazza, The Auburn Conference