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"The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers."
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"There is nothing like race, is there?"
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"It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered."
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"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."
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"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."
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"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."
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"In the biological sense, race does not exist."
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"The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team."
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"I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats."
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"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."
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"I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world."
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"The mere imparting of information is not education."
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"They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands."
Money

"If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery."
Government

"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."
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"If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do."
Economy

"I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me."
Man

"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."
History

"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race."
History

"The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there."
Money

"Let us banish fear."
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