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"The POV style of this book is fascinating. It's not like the usual second person POV that I've seen in other writings, which is definitely a good thing, so it doesn't have a choose-your-own-adventure feel. I'm desperate to know more about the narrator and the man he is speaking to." — Sep 14, 2019 02:49PM
"The POV style of this book is fascinating. It's not like the usual second person POV that I've seen in other writings, which is definitely a good thing, so it doesn't have a choose-your-own-adventure feel. I'm desperate to know more about the narrator and the man he is speaking to." — Sep 14, 2019 02:49PM
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
― Neither Victims Nor Executioners
― Neither Victims Nor Executioners
“Because at some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life and this is my way of keeping you in my heart.”
― Forever Black
― Forever Black
“In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other's throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a crucial crossroad in the history of this nation--and we either hang together by combating these forces that divide and degrade us or we hang separately. Do we have the intelligence, humor, imagination, courage, tolerance, love, respect, and will to meet the challenge? Time will tell. None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.”
― Race Matters
― Race Matters
“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”
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