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I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please.
Sir, we don't serve negroes here.
Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.

— Joseph Lowery

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You gotsta love all God's children!

We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.

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