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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “We hit slavery through a great civil war. Did we destroy it? No, we only changed it into hatred between sections of the country: in the South, into political corruption and chicanery, the degradation of the blacks through peonage, unjust laws, unfair and cruel treatment; and the degradation of the whites by their resorting to these practices, the paralyzation of the public conscience, and the ever over-hanging dread of what the future may bring.”

51. “We hit slavery through a great civil war. Did we destroy it? No, we only changed it into hatred between sections of the country: in the South, into political corruption and chicanery, the degradation of the blacks through peonage, unjust laws, unfair and cruel treatment; and the degradation of the whites by their resorting to these practices, the paralyzation of the public conscience, and the ever over-hanging dread of what the future may bring.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “It is a struggle; for though the white man of the South may be too proud to admit it, he is, nevertheless, using in the contest his best energies; he is devoting to it the greater part of his thought and much of his endeavor.”

52. “It is a struggle; for though the white man of the South may be too proud to admit it, he is, nevertheless, using in the contest his best energies; he is devoting to it the greater part of his thought and much of his endeavor.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “It is a difficult thing for a white man to learn what a colored man really thinks; because, generally, with the latter an additional and different light must be brought to bear on what he thinks; and his thoughts are often influenced by considerations so delicate and subtle that it would be impossible for him to confess or explain them to one of the opposite race.”

53. “It is a difficult thing for a white man to learn what a colored man really thinks; because, generally, with the latter an additional and different light must be brought to bear on what he thinks; and his thoughts are often influenced by considerations so delicate and subtle that it would be impossible for him to confess or explain them to one of the opposite race.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.”

54. “The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.”

55. “My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “It may be because Southerners are very much like Frenchmen in that they must talk; and not only must they talk, but they must express their opinions.”

56. “It may be because Southerners are very much like Frenchmen in that they must talk; and not only must they talk, but they must express their opinions.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it.”

57. “New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “In an astonishingly short time I reached the point where the language taught itself – where I learned to speak merely by speaking. This point is the place which students taught foreign languages in our schools and colleges find great difficulty in reaching. I think the main trouble is that they learn too much of a language at a time. A French child with a vocabulary of two hundred words can express more spoken ideas than a student of French can with a knowledge of two thousand.”

58. “In an astonishingly short time I reached the point where the language taught itself – where I learned to speak merely by speaking. This point is the place which students taught foreign languages in our schools and colleges find great difficulty in reaching. I think the main trouble is that they learn too much of a language at a time. A French child with a vocabulary of two hundred words can express more spoken ideas than a student of French can with a knowledge of two thousand.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.”

59. “I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “For days I could talk of nothing else with my mother except my ambitions to be a great man, a great colored man, to reflect credit on the race and gain fame for myself.”

60. “For days I could talk of nothing else with my mother except my ambitions to be a great man, a great colored man, to reflect credit on the race and gain fame for myself.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.”

61. “The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “Paris practices its sins as lightly as it does its religion, while London practices both very seriously.”

62. “Paris practices its sins as lightly as it does its religion, while London practices both very seriously.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “The man who has not loved before he was fourteen has missed a foretaste of Elysium.”

63. “The man who has not loved before he was fourteen has missed a foretaste of Elysium.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.”

64. “There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.”

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James Weldon Johnson Quote: “The masses of Harlem get a good deal of pleasure out of things far too simple for most other folks.”

65. “The masses of Harlem get a good deal of pleasure out of things far too simple for most other folks.”

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