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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

by Harriet A. Washington

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“There he accepted the advice of his old tutor, A.D. Lindsay, now Master, that he should have all his teeth taken out, as this was the cure for blindness. He developed blood poisoning and died at the age of 43. Academic philosophers should not give medical advice.”
― Walter Reid, Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East

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“[W]hen people talk of our muddling through it throws me into a passion. Muddle through! why yes, so we do – wading through blood and tears that need never have been shed.2”
― Walter Reid, Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East

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“As a result, not only are most Americans (increasingly) ignorant of the contents of the Bible, but they are also almost completely in the dark about what scholars have been saying about the Bible for the past two centuries.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible

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“And he showed little compassion to the slaves themselves, arguing that sugar would be too expensive were it not for slave labour, and that ‘One cannot get into one’s mind that God, who is a very wise being, should have put a soul, above all a good soul, in a body that was entirely black.”
― Carrie Gibson, Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day

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“FRASIER Claire, you are in mourning. But you’re not mourning the loss of your boyfriend. You’re mourning the loss of what you thought your life was going to be. Let it go. Things don’t always work out how you planned—that’s not necessarily bad. Things have a way of working out anyway. Have you ever heard of…Lupe Velez?”
― James Burrows, Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More

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