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"Marion was often fond of saying, 'All people have suffered. So why should any of us feel like we're better or less than another?'
But where were they then--these black people who were just like us--who were equal to us? Why weren't they coming over for dinner? Why weren't they playing golf with Daddy on Saturdays or quilting with Marion on Thursday nights?

Why weren't they in our world, around us, a part of us?"

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"Her vision of liberation was also deeply internationalist" (107) -- Hamer visited Guinea in the 1960s and spoke out about events in the Congo, Angola, and the Vietnam War. I was not aware of much of the history of U.S. involvement in African countries during this time.