Carolina Quotes
I have come to fulfill that promise but in my eyes the great nation is the American nation neither Black nor white but all colors living freely to be able to express themselves as children of God.
Pauli Murray Carolinian
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Sermon at her first Eucharist as an Episcopal priest, Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, February 13, 1977
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