"Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters."

-- William Wells Brown

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“It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.”
“Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.”
“I'm not one to be messed with. I can be bad when it needs to happen.”
“No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold.”
“It's good to talk to people and get ideas.”
“Find your place and hold it: find your work and do it. And put everything you've got into it.”
“For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is about. Instead, the focus is on learning and applying various procedures to solve math problems. That's a bit like explaining soccer by saying it is executing a series of maneuvers to get the ball into the goal. Both accurately describe various key features, but they miss the what and the why of the big picture.”
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

Source : "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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