Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I am disappointed with America. And there can be no great disappointment where there is not great love. I am disappointed with our failure to deal positively and forthrightly with the triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism. We are presently moving down a dead-end road that can lead to national disaster. America has strayed to the far country of racism and militarism.
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Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
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Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Emma Goldman
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If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
