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This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

James Weldon Johnson

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James Weldon Johnson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1871
Born: June 17
Died: 1938
Died: June 26
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J. W. Johnson
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