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We, the black people, the most displaced, the poorest, the most maligned and scourged, we had the glorious task of reclaiming the soul and saving the ...more

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We need to develop courage, and we need to develop it in small ways first..... You develop a little courage, so that if you decide, "I will not stay i...more

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The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of m...more

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The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's ...more

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It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought ...more

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Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of Southern landscapes where even if they were the tar...more