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Listen, Epps... These niggers are human beings.
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If they are allowed to claim no higher than brute animals,
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you and men like you will have to answer for it.
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There's an ill, Mr. Epps,
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a fearful ill, resting upon this nation,
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and there will be a day of reckoning yet.
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You like to hear yourself talk, Bass,
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better than any man I know of.
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Yah argue that black was white, or white black.
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If anybody contradict you,
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a fine supposition if yah lived among Yankees in New England.
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But yah don't.