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“D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were in charge instead of you Crosses?' 'Can't say it's ever crossed my mind,' Jack shrugs. 'I used to think about it a lot,' I sigh. 'Dreams of living in a world with no more discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system, equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field...”

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“I lay on her bed with my arms wrapped around her, wondering how on earth we'd managed to end up like this. I'm not sure what'd been on my mind when I came to see her, but this wasn't it! Strange the way things turn out. When I'd come into her room I'd been burning up with desire to smash…

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“To my fellow Crosses, keep the faith.”

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I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we…

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“No-one understood. No-one. Least of all - me.”

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I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.

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I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we…

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He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her...…

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“I mean you're cute, but not that cute. Would Rhea really risk life in a maximum security detention unit just so that she could…

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A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too…

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“If you can only have one, which means more to you? Being someone or making a difference -Lynny”

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Boys don't cry, but men do.

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“It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small.”

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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.

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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and…

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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

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[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments…

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Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the…

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