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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.


Constance Baker Motley

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RUSSELL BAKER Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work...
RUSSELL BAKER The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded obser...
NICHOLSON BAKER Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in ...
RUSSELL BAKER In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
NICHOLSON BAKER Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really pr...
RUSSELL BAKER It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevit...
RUSSELL BAKER So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the offi...
RUSSELL BAKER He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
KENNETH BAKER The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
RUSSELL BAKER To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
RICHARD BAKER