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James Weldon Johnson Quotes: This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.
         

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.


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This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.



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Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.



We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

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