Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do…

James A. Baldwin
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity ✨ A Letter to My Nephew by James Baldwin, progressive.org. January 1, 1962.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity ✨ A Letter to My Nephew by James Baldwin, progressive.org. January 1, 1962.

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