I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it … - Frances Harper

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I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Frances Harper

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.

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We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.

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My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

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