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Book: The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017
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  1. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad:

    I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. Our destiny by divine
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  2. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad:

    South Carolina has a much more enlightened attitude toward colored advancement than the rest of the south.
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  3. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad:

    if a bird could be taught limericks, a slave might be taught to remember as well. Merely glancing at the size of the skulls told you that a nigger possessed a bigger brain than a bird.
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  4. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad:

    Slavery as a moral issue never interested Ethel. If God had not meant for Africans to be enslaved, they wouldn't be in chains.
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  5. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad:

    It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their labor. It had been stolen from them. Bled from them.
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  6. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad:

    a new wave of immigrants would replace the Irish, fleeing a different but no less abject country, the process starting anew. The engine huffed and groaned and kept running. They had merely switched the fuel that moved the pistons. The
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  7. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad:

    I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. Our destiny by divine prescription – the American imperative.
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