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Actively We Have Woven Ourselves With The Very Warp And Woof Of This Nation, - We Have Fought Their Battles, Shared Their Sorrow, Mingled Our Blood With Theirs, And Generation After Generation Have Pleaded With A Headstrong, Careless People To Despise Not Justice, Mercy And Truth, Lest The Nation Be Smitten With A Curse. Our Song, Our Toil, Our Cheer And Warning Have Been Given To This Nation In Blood-brotherhood. Are Not These Gifts Worth The Giving? Is Not This Worth The Striving? Would America Have Been America Without Her Negro People?

I Believe In Liberty For All Men: The Space To Stretch Their Arms And Their Souls; The Right To Breathe And The Right To Vote, The Freedom To Choose Their Friends, Enjoy The Sunshine, And Ride On The Railroads, Uncursed By Color; Thinking, Dreaming, Working As They Will In A Kingdom Of Beauty And Love.

Whiteness Is Ownership Of The Earth.

The Nation Has Not Yet Found Peace From Its Sins; The Freedman Has Not Yet Found In Freedom His Promised Land. Whatever Of Good May Have Come In These Years Of Change, The Shadow Of A Deep Disappointment Rests Upon The Negro People,—a Disappointment All The More Bitter Because The Unattained Ideal Was Unbounded Save By The Simple Ignorance Of A Lowly People.

Most Men In This World Are Colored. A Belief In Humanity Means A Belief In Colored Men. The Future World Will, In All Reasonable Probability, Be What Colored Men Make It.