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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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“The realization of dreams, like every battle for freedom, has always required compromise to one degree or another. When the result of a concession, however, is the mutilation of your soul or the cancellation of someone else's future, then it may be said the desired goal was corrupted or destroyed rather than attained.”
― Aberjhani, Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah

tags: diversity, ending-terrorism, hate-crimes, mutliculturalism, new-zealand-massacre, nonviolent-conflict-resolution, pursuit-of-happiness, savannah-georgia, social-justice

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“With each passing day, I allowed myself to become a little more intoxicated by limitless possibilities which seemed sometimes to roll in with the fog, murmur suggestions that would have made me run yelling from them had I been anywhere [other than San Francisco], then leave me to cope with that special brand of terror bestowed by sweet and sour tastes of freedom.”
― Aberjhani, Greeting Flannery O'Connor at the Back Door of My Mind

tags: bay-area, california, coming-of-age, freedom, happiness, oregon, san-francisco, traveling-in-america, west-coast-wildfires, youth

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“Naked flights of art unshackled and incandescent songs of poetry undiluted return to the soul what hate, ignorance, fear, and violence steal from the heart.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

tags: cultural-arts, ending-gun-violence, funding-the-arts, healing-quotes, national-art-month, national-poetry-month, psychology-of-healing, school-shooting

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“Whatever grace might 'trickle down' from the higher regions of a given society to the lower is no more essential than that which rises and converges from
the opposite direction.”
― Aberjhani, Greeting Flannery O'Connor at the Back Door of My Mind

tags: antiracism, diversity, economic-impact-of-covid-19, essential-workers, haves-and-have-nots, multiculturalism, multiculturalismo, trickle-down-economics, wealth-and-poverty, wealth-divide

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“Maybe slavery has been with us for centuries because of the inclination to maintain economic systems geared more toward commodifying human existence than developing its spiritual, creative, or scientific potentials. Such commodification instantly erases any recognition of humanity as a priceless value unto itself and reduces individuals as well as entire races, or a specific gender, to a bargain-priced 'other.”
― Aberjhani, Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah