If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.

Billy Sothern
If people are troubled by their view, they ought to...
If people are troubled by their view, they ought to...
If people are troubled by their view, they ought to...
If people are troubled by their view, they ought to...
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We can’t always be right and we can’t always be in the right. We need to be both. If we are wrong, we should admit it and move on, not continue arguing with people who we clearly know we are wrong about.

Source: Down In New Orleans: Reflections From A Drowned City

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