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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.

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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization – an appeal to civilization itself.
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