"Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it."

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Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep.

— Mary Church Terrell