"This is a journey I have always feared-- where my people have gone never to return. The young men have gone to the mines, so the young women have gone to find them. For who can enjoy the lovely land, and the sun that pours down on the earth, when white will not live equally with black, a land where the white man has everything and the black man has nothing?"

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