"The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man."
— Warren G. Harding

January 1, 1970

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Speech delivered in Birmingham, Alabama, quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, 27 October 1921, p. 2.