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Black-belt diamonds;

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"A Light Set upon a Hill"

Go out and be a centre, a life-giving power,
as it were, to a whole community, when an
opportunity comes, when you may give life
where there is no life, hope where there is no
hope, power where there is no power. Begin


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in an humble, simple way, and work to build
up institutions that will put people on their
feet. It is that kind of life that tells.

Sunday Evening Tuskegee Talks.