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Black-belt diamonds;

gems from the speeches, addresses, and talks to students of Booker T. Washington ...
  
  
  
  

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In Freedom's Holy Cause

I cannot forget, as an humble representative
of my race, the vacant seat, the empty sleeve,
the lives offered up on Southern battlefields
that we might have a united country, and that
our flag should shelter none but freemen.

Our New Citizen.