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— Herman Melville"To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote."
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I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we're not looking for anything else.
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