Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.-Kirkus Review
Civil Rights Bigotry Civil War Historical Fiction Middle Grade Slavery
Your right to swing your arm leaves off where my right not to have my nose struck begins.
Quoted by John B. Finch
Nobody is going to notice Billie. People like us are invisible.
Quoted by Elaine Hussey
People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn't true.
Quoted by Julian Houston
I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.
Quoted by Alafia Stewart
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
Quoted by Bayard Rustin
Our situation is intolerable, but what's worse is to sit here and do nothing.
Quoted by Rita Dove
Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.
Quoted by DaShanne Stokes
Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.
Quoted by DaShanne Stokes
The price of conviction has never been cheap, but it will always be worth it.
Quoted by Andrena Sawyer
Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.
Quoted by DaShanne Stokes
Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
Quoted by Martin Luther King Jr.
Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there's no fury facing it.
Quoted by John Lewis
I didn`t change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.
Quoted by Charlton Heston
If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
Quoted by John Lewis