Political Quotes

On the recordApril 13, 1931
No group of people in history ever started from a more complete economic and cultural destitution.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Radio Address on the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of Tuskegee Institute.

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