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• The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
• The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
• I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa,…
• My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have…
• This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them…
• Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is:…
• Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been…
• I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere…
• Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.
• I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They…
• In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning…
• As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march…

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