"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.“


-Stokely Carmichael

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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

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