British Israelites Maintain

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    “If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “The Israelites groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 2:23.

    “It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its own existence, in great emergencies.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)