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This book must be read in the urgent context of King’s difficult experiences in Watts and Chicago, which seemed more representative of the nation’s deeper racial dilemma than were the Southern battlegrounds of Selma and Montgomery.
“I said, “Mr. President, if there are policies of yours with which I disagree, they will be addressed. From time to time you may not like what I say, or how or where I say it. I hope we can work through our differences when those occasions arise.” Nixon”
― Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
― Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
“If I’d been on the edge of feeling content, thinking I was in the right job, doing the right thing at an acceptable pace, Katrina and my Iraq visit put a stop to all that. Change needed to come faster—and I was going to have to decide what role I would play in bringing it about.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“God’s providence, however, is always greater than the roadblocks that human beings put up when you are trying to do God’s Will.”
― A Sankofa Moment: The History of Trinity United Church of Christ
― A Sankofa Moment: The History of Trinity United Church of Christ
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