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Marcus Garvey

"The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness."

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"The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness."

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Asa Don Brown

"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"

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Asa Don Brown

"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"

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Asa Don Brown

"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true."

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Asa Don Brown

"Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans are organized. I believe with George Schuyler that the only really feasible way to improve the general situation of the American Negro is to convince more and more whites that he is, as men go in this world, a decent fellow, and that amicable living with him is not only possible but desirable. Every threat of mass political pressure, every appeal to political mountebanks, only alarms the white brother, and so postpones the day of reasonable justice."

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Asa Don Brown

"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."

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Asa Don Brown

"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."

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Asa Don Brown

"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said."

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Asa Don Brown

"I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race."

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Asa Don Brown

"I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist."

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"There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation."
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"I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together."
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"You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying."
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Marcus Garvey
"Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa."
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Marcus Garvey
"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."
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"Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will."
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"Progress is the attraction that moves humanity."
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"Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do."
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"With confidence, you have won before you have started."
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"I like honesty and fair play."
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