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and what it means for all of the inhabitants of the planet

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The Source of self-regard Civil Rights and an essential form ofNATIONAL BESTSELLER Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to todays social and political moment as directly as this mornings headlines (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9 11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She