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Ralph Abernathy Quotes

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  • I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

  • Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

  • I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

  • Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

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