“In 1831, when Nat Turner and others had sought to throw of their bondage, their effort was called an insurrection. When Frederick Douglass liberated himself from the same miserable system he was declared a fugitive. When Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat and her dignity, she was deemed a public threat. When Malcolm X spoke truths about the daily violence endured by blacks in America, his message was cynically reinterpreted as a call for, well, violence. When Martin Luther King Jr. vowed to win civil rights for black people through love he was labeled a communist and enemy of the state.” -From, “Tupac Shakur: The Life and Times of an American Icon” By: McQuillar & Johnson
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