My Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy book is unbelievably amazing.

Here are some quotes I picked out from James Baldwin's letter to his nephew on the one hundredth anniversary of the end of slavery.

"You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason."

"There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that THEY must accept YOU. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that YOU must accept THEM. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope."

"...we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it."

"You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free."