Ambrose Bierce
(1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions.”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
,
book
Between the World and Me
Source: Between the World and Me (2015), p. 9.
Context: Resent the people trying to entrap your body and it can be destroyed.... The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions. And destruction is merely the superlative form of a dominion whose prerogatives include friskings, detainings, beatings, and humiliations. All of this is common to black people. And all of this is old for black people. No one is held responsible.
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