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Love, Dignity, Freedom, and Hope

Make way.

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“Ain’t I a Woman?”: Sojourner Truth Speaks Truth to Power

In the mid-1800s, when Sojourner Truth was in her early 50s, she addressed a convention on women’s rights and gave this speech. I love the way that she turns the tables on white male patronage of white women (putting them … Continue reading

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Barack Obama on Doubt

Damn, President Barack Obama is good. This from him today at Notre Dame: In this world of competing claims about what is right and what is true, have confidence in the values with which you’ve been raised and educated. Be unafraid … Continue reading

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