“What the colonists created was an 'extreme form of slavery that had existed nowhere in the world,’ wrote the legal historian Ariela J. Gross. “For the first time in history, one category of humanity was ruled out of the ‘human race’…"
Chapter 4
“Caste"
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“What the colonists created was an 'extreme form of slavery that had existed nowhere in the world,’ wrote the legal historian Ariela J. Gross. “For the first time in history, one category of humanity was ruled out of the ‘human race’…”
Chapter 4
“Caste"
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“Americans are loath to talk about enslavement in part because what little we know about it goes against our perception of our country as a just and enlightened nation, a beacon of democracy for the world. ....”
Chapter 4
“Caste"
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“Americans are loath to talk about enslavement in part because what little we know about it goes against our perception of our country as a just and enlightened nation, a beacon of democracy for the world. ....”
Chapter 4
“Caste"
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“The American caste system began in the years after the arrival of the first Africans to the Virginia colony in the summer of 1619, as the colony sought to refine distinctions of who could be enslaved for life and who could not.”
Chapter 3
“Caste"
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“The American caste system began in the years after the arrival of the first Africans to the Virginia colony in the summer of 1619, as the colony sought to refine distinctions of who could be enslaved for life and who could not.”
Chapter 3
“Caste"
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“We cannot fully understand the current upheavals or most any turning point in American history, without accounting for the human pyramid encrypted into us all.”
Chapter 3
“Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower #politicsofpower #liberation #abolitionists
“We cannot fully understand the current upheavals or most any turning point in American history, without accounting for the human pyramid encrypted into us all.”
Chapter 3
“Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower #politicsofpower #liberation #abolitionists
“Sometimes, we have to go to a deep internal space for a conversation. There’s honesty, but sometimes you have to go beyond honesty and be courageous.”
“An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World”
~ Patrisse Cullors
#caste #hierarchyofpower #liberation #abolitionists
“Sometimes, we have to go to a deep internal space for a conversation. There’s honesty, but sometimes you have to go beyond honesty and be courageous.”
“An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World”
~ Patrisse Cullors
#caste #hierarchyofpower #liberation #abolitionists
“It is often asked if abolition has reparations as part of its goals. Of course it does. Reparations are abolition in action.”
“An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World”
~ Patrisse Cullors
#caste #hierarchyofpower #politicsofpower #healing #liberation #abolitionists
“It is often asked if abolition has reparations as part of its goals. Of course it does. Reparations are abolition in action.”
“An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World”
~ Patrisse Cullors
#caste #hierarchyofpower #politicsofpower #healing #liberation #abolitionists
“The use of inherited physical characteristics to differentiate inner abilities and group value may be the cleverest way that a culture has ever devised to manage and maintain a caste system.”
Chapter 2
“Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“The use of inherited physical characteristics to differentiate inner abilities and group value may be the cleverest way that a culture has ever devised to manage and maintain a caste system.”
Chapter 2
“Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“Abolitionists didn’t say, let’s just make slavery better. Let’s get them better shows and dentures and clothing and fewer beatings and better hours on the plantation and the right to marry and keep their babies.”
“An Abolitionist's Handbook”
~ Patrisse Cullors
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“Abolitionists didn’t say, let’s just make slavery better. Let’s get them better shows and dentures and clothing and fewer beatings and better hours on the plantation and the right to marry and keep their babies.”
“An Abolitionist's Handbook"
~ Patrisse Cullors
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“Caste, like grammar, becomes an invisible guide not only to how we speak, but to how we process information, the automatic calculations that figure into a sentence without our having to think about it.”
Chapter 2
“Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“Caste, like grammar, becomes an invisible guide not only to how we speak, but to how we process information, the automatic calculations that figure into a sentence without our having to think about it.”
Chapter 2
“Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
~Isabel Wilkerson
#caste #hierarchyofpower
“The United States may talk about peacekeeping, but that’s never truly been the goal. Our country funds war like it’s trying to win a video game. We thrive on conflict, incarceration, crime, and punishment, at home and abroad.”
“An Abolitionist's Handbook
~ Patrisse Cullors
#hierarchyofpower
