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The First Ladies by Marie Benedict

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“Why is the poor man on the church steps?” Mary asks. “I don’t think I’ve ever heard of such a thing.” “I hoped to highlight the hypocrisy of the lynchers and the mob—that dichotomy between their actions and the beliefs they profess to ...more

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“Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.”
― Whitehead Colson

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“Our world is suffering from metastatic cancer.”
― Ibram Kendi

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“The key to in here is the same to surviving out there - you got to see how people act, and then you got to figure out how to get around them like an obstacle course. If you want to walk out of here”
― Whitehead Colson

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“It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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