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I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America. ↗

— Bert Williams

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Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. ↗

— Althea Gibson

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I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either. ↗

— Bob Feller

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I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

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The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. ↗

— Gideon Welles

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The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them. ↗

— Elvis Presley

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I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

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