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Lillian Smith: To believe in...

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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Source: The Journey, ch. 15, 1954.
-- Lillian Smith, (Dec 12 1897-1966), US novelist, educator; She wrote the popular novel Strange Fruit, 1944, which was banned in Boston.


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