"The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained……" — Sarah Churchwell
"The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction."
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10 Quotes by Sarah Churchwell
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Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.
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History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have…
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History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
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If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party:…
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Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not…
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
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In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline…
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Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps…
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Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration,…
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