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  • Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black man even started in that direction, which is a mature step and it's the only way to really solve this problem and to prove that he is the intellectual equal of others, why, the racists and the segregationists would fight that harder than they're fighting the present efforts to integrate.

    Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.
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