"Our people humanized the violent, inhumane slave plantation society that the British colonialists had established, (but) we are still faced with the insidious nature of a culture that is intended to dehumanize black people wherever black or blackness is found, and our parliaments therefore, while we shall be in the vanguard of removing all laws of discrimination, it is the mental emancipation that shall forever always matter."
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Mia Mottley (2021) cited in: "Mia Mottley: Barbados’ first female leader on a mission to transform island" in The Guardian, 3 December 2021.
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