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A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1854

by Sidney Blumenthal

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Song of the Lion (Leaphorn & Chee, #21)

by Anne Hillerman (Goodreads Author)

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Giovanni’s Room

by James Baldwin

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“If one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit to what one will force them to endure,”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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“think I know—we see it around us every day—the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads. It is so”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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“simple a fact and one that is so hard, apparently, to grasp: Whoever debases others is debasing himself. That is not a mystical statement but a most realistic one, which is proved by the eyes of any Alabama sheriff—and I would not like to see Negroes ever arrive at so wretched a condition.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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