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I feel that I would rather face a lynching stake in civilised America than try to make a speech before the most intellectual and critical audience in the world.

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Claude McKay

Poet · Author 1889–1948

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Marxists Internet Archive, transcribed from International Press Correspondence, January 5, 1923
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