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Herbert Hoover: It is the soil in which self respect takes root, and from which may then grow all the moral and spiritual enrichments of…

On the recordMarch 12, 1930
It is the soil in which self respect takes root, and from which may then grow all the moral and spiritual enrichments of life.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Message Commending the National Urban League on Its Job Training Efforts for Negroes.

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