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When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

Source: The Faith of the American Negro, Harvard commencement address, Jun 1922.
-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, (Jan 12 1890-1976), US educator, university president; He was president of Howard University for more than three decades; awarded the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP, 1928.

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