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I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could do things that no civil rights march ever did.

Source: In The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader, by Clayborne Carson, 1991.
-- Carl Stokes, (Jun 21 1927-1996), US mayor, lawyer; He was the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland, 1967.

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