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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

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Warren G. Harding
Age: 57 †
Born: 1865
Born: November 2
Died: 1923
Died: August 2
29Th U.S. President
Businessperson
Newspaper Editor
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Blooming Grove
Ohio
Warren Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding
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Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.
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Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
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I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.
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