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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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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. – William Lloyd Garrison

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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. – Frederick Douglass

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I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Ralph Ellison

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Prejudice is the child of ignorance. – William Hazlitt

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