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... race, and culture -- have widened and have ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
The stories added to this edition represent a membership whose characteristics -- of age, gender, race, and culture -- have widened and have deepened to encompass virtually everyone the first 100 members could have hoped to reach.


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... race are traceable to sex causes.   BB p.69, How It Works   Go to page 69 in the Big Book
Then we have the voices who cry for sex and more sex; who bewail the institution of marriage; who think that most of the troubles of the race are traceable to sex causes.


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... race by only a narrow margin.   BB p.158, A Vision For You   Go to page 158 in the Big Book
He lost the race by only a narrow margin.


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... race, creed, or color are the children ...   BB p.28, There Is A Solution   Go to page 28 in the Big Book
If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.

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... race, creed, politics, and language with ease?   12&12 p.141, Tradition Three
Could any then imagine a society which would include every conceivable kind of character, and cut across every barrier of race, creed, politics, and language with ease?


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... race through the mind of every woman ...   BB p.108, To Wives   Go to page 108 in the Big Book
These are some of the questions which race through the mind of every woman who has an alcoholic husband.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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