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	Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties 3.99 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1955 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events 4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Briar Patch 3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Going Around: Selected Journalism by Murray Kempton, Andrew Holter (introduction), Darryl Pinckney (foreword) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	America Comes of Middle Age: Columns 1950-1962 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1963 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trials of the Resistance really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1970	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Socialism Now! Democracy's Only Defense 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1941	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Briar Patch, The People of the State of New York v. Lumumba Shakur et al. (Notable Trials Library) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.”
― Murray Kempton

tags: humor

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“Each of us lives with a sword over his head.
There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality.”
― Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties

tags: activism, activism-inspiration, american-history, ethics, myth, revolution

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“By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.”
― Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties

tags: ambition, class, freaks, middle-class, poets

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