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"What a terrible chapter in Cummings’ life—his father’s continual bombardment of criticism and physical abuse." Apr 07, 2026 08:34AM

 
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Taylor Branch
“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

“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that is often overlooked in criminal justice scholarship: class divisions within the black community.21 Although mass incarceration harms black America as a whole, its most direct victims are the poorest, least educated blacks. While”
James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

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

Tom Holland
“Winners are the favourites of heaven.”
Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

“What the Spanish flu taught us, in essence, is that another flu pandemic is inevitable, but whether it kills 10 million or 100 million will be determined by the world into which it emerges.”
Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

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