Abid Jan

The truth about systemic racism is not easy to communicate to many. One of the great nineteenth-century English philosophers of liberty and opponents of African slavery, John Stuart Mill, once put it this way:
“The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favourable circumstances it escapes
persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it.”
(John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 4th ed. (London: Longman, Roberts & Green, 1869), 17.)