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“If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.”

Ifs Doe Stills Matter Would Be America Young Particular Color Advantage Skins Privilege Tone Wheels Celebration Whiteness Skin Tone Color Wheel

Author:Eric Liu

“The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.”

America Black Mines Discovery Gold Skins Population Productions Eras Dawn Silver Capitalist Hunting Enslavement Aboriginal Rosy Gold And Silver Black Skin

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

“In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.”

Long States America Black White United United States Movement Skins Independent Slavery Workers Labour Republic North America Branded White Skin

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

“In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.”

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.”

Ifs Country Today America Beautiful Church Religious White Racism Standing Skins Bigotry Yellow Presbyterians Unification Beautiful Country Religious Bigotry Unification Church

Author:Sun Myung Moon