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James Weldon Johnson

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A leading American author, poet, and early civil rights activist.. author poet folklorist and civil rights leader


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Quote Left Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. Quote Right
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Quote Left Judgment is forced upon us by experience. Quote Right
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Quote Left Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. Quote Right
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Quote Left The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. Quote Right
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Quote Left Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor. Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things