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"By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching."
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"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."
"A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist."
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"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."
"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
"Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst."
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"By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching."
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