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Jack Johnson: The fight between...

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The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

Source: Jack Johnson In the Ring and Out, 1927.
-- Jack Johnson, (Mar 31 1878-1946), US boxer; He defeated Tommy Burns to become the world's first black heavyweight champion, 1908; he was a powerful symbol of the independent black man.


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