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“When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.”

“Interactive website about Jacob Lawrence's life and work.”

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“…My early beginnings, as most Negroes in the United States, has been the Negro experience. This is all I knew at one time was the Negro experience. My whole background, Negro family, Negro community, everything was Negro. So I think it was natural that I would use this symbol for my expression, you see…”

“‘The migrants kept coming’ is a refrain of triumph over adversity. If it rings true for you today, then it must still strike a chord in our American experience.”

“The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation website, works at Phillips Collection”

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"The problem of the twenty-first century, then, is the problem of the color-blind. This problem is simple: it believes that to redress racism, we need to not consider race in social practice, notably i…"

— Vijay Prashad

Literature1967

#justice

"'Tis only from the selfishness and confin'd generosity of men, along with the scanty provision nature has made for his wants, that justice derives its origin."

— David Hume

Philosophy1796–1864

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