Carolina Quotes
My feeling is that if this country is to survive, we must live together in harmony and we must live together in a spirit of harmony, you can call it brotherhood or whatnot. We cannot survive as a divided country. Therefore, there is a need for people to be involved with and concerned about reconciliation even as we are working on liberation.
Pauli Murray Carolinian
Source
Oral history interview by Genna Rae McNeil, February 13, 1976; Southern Oral History Program, Interview G-0044, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with Pauli Murray, Interview G-0044
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- 1976
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