He saw diamond, copper, and coal mines where thousands of Africans worked for a dollar a month, taxed and landless...

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- Clerk? I'd like air extra room tonight for my guest.

- Is he a Negro?

- The same as I.

- I mean, a native?

- He is.

- The hotels here don't take in native Africans. You'll have to take your friend somewhere else.

- Yes, he remembered that the natives were unfree in their own land.

- He lived in the tribal camps and got to know chieftains, and learned that people everywhere were determined to have freedom and a control over their destinies.

- He saw diamond, copper, and coal mines where thousands of Africans worked for a dollar a month, taxed and landless...

- And understood even better the old urge his own country had once to free itself from the colonial status.

- He put in five years in the colonies of Indonesia, Malaya, and Burma, and wrote in his thesis...

- If ever there is to be peace in the world, the vast majority of mankind who produce the raw material out of Asia and Africa must first be freed and given a proper share of the wealth of their labor.

- They will either become free and independent new nations through blood and strife, as did America, or through the cooperation of peaceful nations.

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