Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection … - James A. Baldwin

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James A. Baldwin

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.

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