6 Quotes by Joy Hakim

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    Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.

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    When William Johnson and slave walked down that long, winding American road toward freedom and justice, they didn't realize they would be speaking out for all those left behind. They learned that it would take hard work to make the words of the Declaration of Independence mean what they said. Ellen and William Craft were willing to do their part.

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    My new favorite quote is, "Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.

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    Elizabeth Cady read the nation’s great Declaration, and it bothered her. All men are created equal, it said. But what about women?

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    When William Johnson and slave walked down that long, winding American road toward freedom and justice, they didn’t realize they would be speaking out for all those left behind. They learned that it would take hard work to make the words of the Declaration of Independence mean what they said. Ellen and William Craft were willing to do their part.

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