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"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
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"If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim."
"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
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