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When the negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the american people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of american faith.
-Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
When the negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the american people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of american faith.
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I maintain that i have been a negro three times--a negro baby, a negro girl and a negro woman. still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the negro in america is like, then you are in the same place with me. there is no the negro here. our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except my people! my people!
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