Richard Wright, and there's an election on

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"With my pencil I wrote in a determined scrawl across the face of the ballots:
I PROTEST THIS FRAUD... I collected my ten dollars and went home" (298)

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"... no man can possibly be individually guilty of treason, that an insurgetn act is but a man's desperate answer to those who twist his environment so that he cannot fuly share the spirit of his native land. Treason is a crime of the state" (302).

Black Boy (American Hunger) 1998 Perennial edition