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“What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?”

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Peter Abrahams was a renowned South African novelist known for his critical works on the apartheid system. His writings profoundly exposed racial inequality and oppression, having a profound impact on South African literature. more

“The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.”

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Author:Black Hawk

“The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.”

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Author:Adam Smith

“Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.”

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Author:Dorothy Thompson

“Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?”

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Book:Let the Record Speak

Source: Let the Record Speak

“Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.”

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Author:Dorothy Thompson

“We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.”

“What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.”

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Book:American Hunger

Source: American Hunger

“Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.”

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Author:Richard Wright

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