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• Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for…
• She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
• This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
• A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.…
• At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able…
• My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise;…
• I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a…
• I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

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