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I am one of them You do not seem to understand who I am I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker.... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system

Patricia Roberts Harris

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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
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Patricia Roberts Harris

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Born: May 31, 1924
Died: March 23, 1985 (aged 60)
Bio: Patricia Roberts Harris served in the American administration of President Jimmy Carter as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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