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No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. – Booker T. Washington

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We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. – Cissy Farenthold

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The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. – Thurgood Marshall

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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. – Oprah Winfrey

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