I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
-- James Weldon Johnson
   
James Weldon Johnson   Name:
James Weldon Johnson
Type:
Poet
Nationality:
American
Birth:
June 17, 1871
Death:
June 26, 1938
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