When Demetrie got sick, we knew it

“When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.”

— Kathryn Stockett

Author: Kathryn Stockett
Category: medical
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

— Frederick Douglass

Author: Frederick Douglass
Category: society
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