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  "text": "They think that Americans are either white or Black. I can't wear that civil-rights button with the Black hand and the white hand shaking each other. I have a nightmare-after duking it out, someday Blacks and whites will shake hands over my head. I'm the little yellow man beneath the bridge of their hands and overlooked. (p307)",
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      "text": "What's crazy is the idea that revolutionaries must shoot and bomb and kill, that revolution is the same as war. (p305)",
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