#AuburnWorldHistory "While these other universities certainly owe reparations and a large portion of their endowments to the descendants of enslaved people in Mississippi, the University of Chicago owes its entire existence to slavery."
#AuburnWorldHistory "In an effort to become an even richer man, he decided to expand his business activities into another booming industry—philanthropy." Comical that Douglas switched from a decade of slave labor to philanthropy, very ironic.
#AuburnWorldHistory "The main center of discontent within the capitalist dynamic is increasingly shifting to struggles over the realization of value — over the politics of daily life in the city."
#AuburnWorldHistory "Obviously, the United States still has a global position, but times have changed. Obama can go to the G20 and say, “We should do this,” and Angela Merkel can say, “We’re not doing that.” That would not have happened in the 1970s."
@maliapricee#auburnworldhistory I think this quote is very powerful and meaningful, it really describes the constant oppression Africa had been continually facing.
#AuburnWorldHistory "Without womanhood, this world would be as one vast desert unpeopled...True womanhood loves her off-spring far dearer than her life.”-Aaron Rivers
#AuburnWorldHistory "600,000 out of one million black workers during WorldWar II" were black women, "an esti-mated four thousand—joined the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) and more than three hundred became members of the Army Nurse Corps."
#AuburnWorldHistory “We want to set the world on fire, we want freedom and justice and a chance to build for ourselves. And if we must set the world on fire...we will, like other men, die for the realization of our dreams.” -Josephine Moody