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The Question and Answer section for Stride Toward Freedom is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The author's description of America's "schizophrenic personality" (line 2) refers to his belief that
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. argued that the United States had displayed "a schizophrenic personality on the question of race." In making this statement, King linked the double consciousness that black people experienced on a daily basis to the...
From the text:
Oppressed people deal with their oppression in three characteristic ways. One way is acquiescence: the oppressed resign themselves to their doom.
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his...
I'm not sure this was from a speech or a just something he said.
