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Ralph Ellison

“Only men who are not only corrupt but whose corruption has frozen over and hardened can confess the things they do and still accept positions of leadership. They are dead men and unless they’re controlled by public opinion and every other available force, they’re as dangerous as Nazis. More so, because they still speak in the name of the only possible future. I”

Ralph Ellison, The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
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The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison
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