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Strength in struggle. First of all, it removes us from a sense of ourselves as only individuals. It allows us to imagine ourselves as a part of something much larger. It gestures toward the future at the same time as it allows us to imagine ourselves as the product of the imagination, of the collective …
“If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.”
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
In this speech, W.E.B Dubois discusses Socialism and the Struggle of Black People in America 00:44…..”In the little New England town where I was born, we had a high school of about 25 pupils. I entered it in 1880 at the age of 12. As I attended the town meeting annually, in the Spring, there …
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We received a forward via social media this week claiming to be a note from someone called Lord Macaulay. Now while someone by that name did exist, nothing else about the note was true. The man in question’s full name was Thomas Babington Macaulay and he was indeed a British politician but that is where …
