thesunflowersqueen reblogged
- Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
- Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- A riot is the language of the unheard.
- Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
- We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
- This country has Socialism for the rich, and ‘rugged individualism’ for the poor.
- It will be necessary to demonstrate in order to bring these issues [of injustice] to the surface and lay them squarely before the conscience of the nation.
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What happened to the paperclip?