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The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas

by Carrie Gibson (Goodreads Author)

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Mexico: A 500-Year History

by Paul Gillingham

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Josephine’s Quotes

“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion

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“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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