

“Liberation is a lie unless every shackled soul one day finds themselves on the shores of freedom.”
― The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
― The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

“Because Black kids don’t get to make mistakes. Black kids don’t get to be kids. Black kids get judgment and bullets.”
― The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
― The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive. They need only racial indifference, as Martin Luther King Jr. warned more than forty-five years ago.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“African Americans are not significantly more likely to use or sell prohibited drugs than whites, but they are made criminals at drastically higher rates for precisely the same conduct.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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