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Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.


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We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.



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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.



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A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.



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Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.



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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.





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