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"People can be slave-ships in shoes."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
"It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion."
"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
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"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."
"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."
"So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."
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