You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
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And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.
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Yet critics on the left find it incomprehensible that any black American could succeed on his or her own through hard work and determination.
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