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“[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.”

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You face the reality, whether it's hopeful or hopeless. What's your alternative? To lie down and die?

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Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

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You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

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