Chicago Historical Society

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    Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
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    What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man ... by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?
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    It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.
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