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Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter

by Ada Ferrer

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Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution

by Anand Gopal (Goodreads Author)

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Mexico: A 500-Year History

by Paul Gillingham

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Josephine’s Quotes

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
― George Saunders

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“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion

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“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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