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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. – Toni Morrison

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When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. – Harriet Tubman, on her first escape from slavery, 1845

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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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There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something. – John Lewis

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My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. – David Cassidy

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He is very dry but also very funny… I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, its not a good place for you to be. – Colin Quinn

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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. – Arnold Bennett

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