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— Ralph Waldo Emerson"Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books."
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I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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