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"The world is fast learning that of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him."

— Booker T. Washington

In An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City, February 12, 1909