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Sam Motes

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Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck

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all war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal,

"I Heard You Paint Houses", Updated Edition: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

by Charles Brandt

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Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America

by Edward Samuel Behr

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Sam’s Quotes

“When it comes to climate justice, democracy knows no borders.”
― Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

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“Another found that achievement gaps between rich and poor children form and harden before kindergarten.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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“When someone is shot dead, the children who live on that block perform much worse on cognitive tests in the days following the murder. The violence captures their minds.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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“In the history of the nation, there has only been one other state-sponsored initiative more antifamily than mass incarceration, and that was slavery.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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“Poverty measures exclude everyone in prison and jail—not to mention those housed in psych wards, halfway houses, and homeless shelters—which means there are millions more poor Americans than official statistics let on.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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