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The African American is unable to saunter down a street with any real certainty that violence will not visit him. Thus he could rarely afford the sophisticated inhibitions of civilization, relinquishing the pleasures of the mind for the more obligatory pleasures of the body,'.

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The African American is in need of breaking away from the pack thinking and in need of a rejection of immorality - because that's the reason the family's breaking apart - alcohol, drugs, infidelity.

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The African American is not deserving of political or social equality — I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

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The African American is one who ever feels his twoness; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body.

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