“By the end of it, I had finally begun to grasp something that should have been immediately apparent: that someone had opposed the great march toward equality; someone had been the person from whom freedom had to be wrested.”

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 20, “Recitals of the Fathers” (p. 180; the reference is to the Civil Rights Movement)

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