The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Metadata

• Author: [[Colson Whitehead]]
• Full Title: The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
• Category: #books

Highlights

• Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor—if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative. (Location 1085)
• The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others. (Location 1575)
• In death the negro became a human being. Only then was he the white man’s equal. (Location 1861)
• All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man. (Location 2451)
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• The negro’s story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day. (Location 3451)
• “And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are. (Location 3806)
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• “Color must suffice. It has brought us to this night, this discussion, and it will take us into the future. All I truly know is that we rise and fall as one, one colored family living next door to one white family. We may not know the way through the forest, but we can pick each other up when we fall, and we will arrive together.” (Location 3820)
• The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. (Location 3849)