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Patriot: A Memoir

by Alexei Navalny

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The Moviegoer

by Walker Percy

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Soul Surgery: Some Thoughts on Incisive Personal Work

by Howard Arnold Walter

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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The notion that a colonialist Zionism exists merely in the hallucinations of leftist professors and the chants of their wayward students ignores a crucial source—the very words of Zionists themselves.

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Matt’s Quotes

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true

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“We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.”
― Haile Selassie I

tags: courage, humanity, men, race, spirit

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“Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true”
― Pete Maravich

tags: dreams, inspirational, love, patience, persistence

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“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”
― Marcus Garvey

tags: activism, belief, integrity, social-justice

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“The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions; and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.”
― Paul Robeson, Paul Robeson Speaks: Writings, Speeches, and Interviews, a Centennial Celebration

tags: life, values, western-civilization

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