I Understood That My Family Was Rich In Love But Would Probably Never Own The Land My Father, John, Dreamed Of Owning. My Mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, Was A Washerwoman For Poor White Folks In The Area Of Columbus, Georgia Where The Writer Carson Mccullers Once Lived.

-John Henrik Clarke

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I Understood That My Family Was Rich

John Henrik Clarke

I Understood That My Family Was Rich In Love But Would Probably Never Own The Land My Father, John, Dreamed Of Owning. My Mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, Was A Washerwoman For Poor White Folks In The Area Of Columbus, Georgia Where The Writer Carson Mccullers Once Lived.

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It Is Not Uncommon For Ignorant And Corrupt Men To Falsely Charge Others With Doing What They Imagine That They Themselves, In Their Narrow Minds And Experience, Would Have Done Under The Circumstances Of A Given Case, And The Surest Check, Often The Only Check, On Such Perjury, Is To Recognize The Impossibility That Men Of Larger Instruction And Resources And Experience Could Have Been Guilty Of Such Conduct.

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