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> [Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/integration-begins-the-day-after-the-minds-of-the-people-are/)

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## More by John Oliver Killens

> [The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/the-negro-loves-america-enough-to-criticize-her-fundamentally-most/)

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> [What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/what-a-tiresome-place-america-would-be-if-freedom-meant-we-all-had-to/)

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> [Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/life-is-a-short-walk-there-is-so-little-time-and-so-much-living-to/)

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> [Along with the fight to desegregate schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America, we must desegregate the minds of the American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/along-with-the-fight-to-desegregate-schools-we-must-desegregate-the/)

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> [Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/most-of-us-came-here-in-chains-and-most-of-you-came-here-to-escape/)

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> [The Negro was invented in America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/the-negro-was-invented-in-america/)

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> [We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/we-are-not-fighting-for-the-right-to-be-like-you-we-respect-ourselves/)

[John Oliver Killens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-oliver-killens/)

> [Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/integration-begins-the-day-after-the-minds-of-the-people-are/)

[John Oliver Killens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-oliver-killens/)

> [We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/we-have-to-undo-the-millions-of-little-white-lies-that-america-told/)

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> [Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/western-man-wrote-his-history-as-if-it-were-the-history-of-the-entire/)

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> [My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver-killens/my-fight-is-not-for-racial-sameness-but-for-racial-equality-and/)

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