From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... race, and
culture -- have widened and have ...
BB xxiii,
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.
2.
... race are
traceable to sex causes.
BB p.69,
How It Works
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.
3.
... race by
only a narrow margin.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
4.
... race, creed,
or color are the children ...
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
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.
5.
... 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?
6.
... race through
the mind of every woman ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
These are some of the questions which race through the mind of every woman who has an alcoholic
husband.
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