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• If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a…
• Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we…
• I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
• You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
• You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close…
• The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is…
• For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,…

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