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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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As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: “The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.” – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

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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Black History

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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Black History

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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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light wont come in. – Alan Alda

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Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: theres the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in. – Marcelene Cox

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Christmas

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. – Johann von Goethe

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There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today. – Lois Chartrand

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