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"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
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"I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes."

"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."

"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."

"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."

"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."

"France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside."

"I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat."

"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."

"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
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"I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else."

"I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were."

"I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years."

"After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time."

"I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody."
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