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Robert E. Lee Quotes: I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.
         

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.


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