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Negro and faces
Recalling to everyone's memory the faces of Margaret's children, and of A. K. Gaines, Stone told the packed courtroom: " The faded faces of the Negro children tell too plainly to what degradation the female slaves submit.

Negro and much
It is much used for the transit of large canoes, which are hauled across it from the Terni river, and which reach the Rio Negro by the little stream called the Pimichin.
In 1948, needing pitching for the stretch run of the pennant race, Veeck turned to the Negro League again and signed pitching great Satchel Paige amid much controversy.
Langston Hughes relays in the " Negro Ghetto " ( 1931 ) and " The Heart of Harlem " ( 1945 ): " The buildings in Harlem are brick and stone / And the streets are long and wide ,/ But Harlem ’ s much more than these alone ,/ Harlem is what ’ s inside.
' The subject has been too much talked about ... We need a period in which Negro progress continues and racial rhetoric fades.
As much as anything else, that specter has enabled the power structure to overcome tenacious prejudice and give the Negro community a role in the consensus probably unparalleled in any major American city.
Whatever may be the conclusion to which our scientific inquiries may lead us, we should always remember, that by whatever means the Negro, for instance, acquired his present physical, mental and moral character, whether he has risen from an ape or descended from a perfect man, we still know that the Races of Europe have now much in their mental and moral nature which the races of Africa have not got.
Our Bristol and Liverpool merchants, perhaps, helped to benefit the race when they transplanted some of them to America ; and our mistaken legislature has done the Negro race much injury by their absurd and unwarrantable attempts to prevent Africa from exporting her worthless or surplus population ... I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that slavery as understood by the ancients does not exist out of Africa and that the highest type of the Negro race is at present to be found in the Confederate States of America.
They must support Southern voter registration and Negro political candidates and demand that Democratic Party liberals do the same ( in the last Congress, Dixiecrats split with Northern Democrats on 119 of 300 roll-calls, mostly on civil rights, area redevelopment and foreign aid bills ; and breach was much larger than in the previous several sessions ).
" Finally, I am of opinion that after all these numerous instances I have brought together of negroes of capacity, it would not be difficult to mention entire well-known provinces of Europe, from out of which you would not easily expect to obtain off-hand such good authors, poets, philosophers, and correspondents of the Paris Academy ; and on the other hand, there is no so-called savage nation known under the sun which has so much distinguished itself by such examples of perfectibility and original capacity for scientific culture, and thereby attached itself so closely to the most civilized nations of the earth, as the Negro.
" Finally, I am of opinion that after all these numerous instances I have brought together of negroes of capacity, it would not be difficult to mention entire well-known provinces of Europe, from out of which you would not easily expect to obtain off-hand such good authors, poets, philosophers, and correspondents of the Paris Academy ; and on the other hand, there is no so-called savage nation known under the sun which has so much distinguished itself by such examples of perfectibility and original capacity for scientific culture, and thereby attached itself so closely to the most civilized nations of the earth, as the Negro.
German socialism is accompanied by the Volksgeist ( national spirit ) which is not racial in the biological sense but metaphysical: " the German spirit in a Negro is quite as much within the realm of possibility as the Negro spirit in a German ".
Located along the Negro River, a branch of the much larger Paraná river, the area was originally inhabited by some guaycuru aboriginals, such as the tobas.
Heartbroken, and upset, Deeds decides to return home to Mandrake Falls after giving $ 40 Billion of his money he inherits to the United Negro College Fund ( much to the surprise of the chairman, who has a heart attack ).
The subject has been too much talked about .... We may need a period in which Negro progress continues and racial rhetoric fades.
He writes “ The Indian and Negro have much harder bodies and, because of the duller nervous system, are much less sensitive to lacerations .” And he asserts the Jewish race is a degenerated form of the original Semitic race from which the advanced Aryan race was created.
The water in the Casiquiare flows from the Orinoco River into the Rio Negro, tributary of the Amazon, though much more is gathered en route from numerous tributaries.
Langston Hughes relays in the " Negro Ghetto " ( 1931 ) and " The Heart of Harlem " ( 1945 ): " The buildings in Harlem are brick and stone / And the streets are long and wide ,/ But Harlem's much more than these alone ,/ Harlem is what's inside.
Despite the fact that much of the melodic material of the symphony can be traced to Dvořák's homeland, and that Dvořák himself perceived many of the ' American ' tunes in it as being Native American, it has been claimed that " The first time a Negro song became a major theme in a great symphonic work ... was in 1893, when Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony was played ".
He also makes a much disputed statement about voting: “ I believe it is the duty of the Negroas the greater part of the race is already doing – to deport himself modestly in regard to political claims, depending upon the slow but sure influences that proceed from the possession of property, intelligence, and high character for the full recognition of his political rights.
I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race.
Boyd believes that the conference might have accomplished much good if the speakers had included a white supremacist and a Negro race leader, preferably a top man in the American Black Muslim movement.

Negro and if
The Atlanta Negro student movement renewed its demands for movie theater integration Friday and threatened picketing and `` stand-ins '' if negotiations failed.
The Casiquiare is not a sluggish canal on a flat tableland, but a great, rapid river which, if its upper waters had not found contact with the Orinoco, perhaps by cutting back, would belong entirely to the Negro branch of the Amazon.
In such a case the sheriff, if he were an extreme utilitarian, would appear to be committed to framing the Negro .”
Because of that interest in the Negro people, these songs granted the listener new knowledge about African Americans who were different from themselves, even if the information was prejudiced.
He said " if it is necessary every Negro in the state will be lynched ; it will be done to maintain white supremacy.
Carleton said that it would be a breach of faith not to honor the British policy of liberty to the Negro and declared that if removing them proved to be an infraction of the treaty, then compensation would have to be paid by the British government.
*" There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.
( Kennedy ) feels that somewhere in the Negro movement, at the top, there must be a Negro leader who is " clean ' who could step into the vacuum if Martin Luther King were either exposed or assassinated.
Glazer's view was an example of the culture of poverty arguments that were gaining traction by the mid-1960s as explanations for social inequalities ( Moynihan's influential, if controversial, The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, was perhaps the most prominent work in this vein ).
If a white man persists in ' causing trouble ', the night riders may pay him a visit, or the officials may haul him into court ; if he is a Negro, a mob may hunt him down.
: From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that ... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.
Moreover, and of real importance, the United States Supreme Court has not decided what should be done if a Negro school being compared with a white school is inferior in some respects and superior in others.
In January 1968, Fry issued a stirring appeal to fellow church members to " unstop your ears " to the need for a " massive improvement in the lot of Negro ghettos ," warning of the prospects for " spiraling and spreading violence " if racial justice were not achieved swiftly.
Frankly, I do not ascribe to the stupid theory of white supremacy and to try to hide the fact that I am a Negro for economic or any other reasons, if I do I would be agreeing to be a Negro makes me inferior and that I have swallowed whole hog all of the propaganda dished out by our fascist-minded white citizens.
There are many whites who are mixed blood, but still go by white, why such a big deal if I go as Negro, because people can't believe that I am proud to be a Negro and not white.
" When I heard of the hiring of a new assistant, I began to wonder if the full reason is whether or not the time is ripe to hire a Negro coach in Cleveland on the professional level ," he wrote.
Negro slavery, if it could have been brought under the control of the Mosaic or similar laws, must have tended to the blessing of the negro race by frequent emigration of civilized negroes back to the interior of Africa ; and even now that race might reap the benefit of its enslaved members, if the latter or the best instructed among them were sent back to the interior of Africa.
My feeling is not only should a Negro theatre, if we want to use that term, do plays
This is what could happen, but need not happen if the right kind of a national Negro leader could at this time be gradually developed so as to overshadow Dr. King and be in the position to assume the role of the leadership of the Negro people when King has been completely discredited.

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