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“The principle, the identity of private morality and public conscience, is as deeply rooted in our tradition and Constitution as the principle of legal separation,” he declared. “Washington in his first inaugural said that the roots of national policy lay in private morality. Lincoln proclaimed as a national faith that right makes might. Surely this is so.”
― Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65

“a city without a bookstore wasn't a city worth calling home.”
― Evan Friss, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

“In the dark, you could never be too black. In the dark, everyone was the same color.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Memory works that way—like seeing forward and backward at the same time.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half