Warren G. Harding Quote

I want to see the time come when black men will regard themselves as full participants in the benefits and duties of American citizens. We cannot go on, as we have gone on for more than half a century, with one great section of our population... set off from real contribution to solving national issues, because of a division on race lines.


Speech delivered to a segregated, mixed race audience at Woodrow Wilson Park in Birmingham, Alabama on the occasion of the city's semicentennial, published in the Birmingham Post (27 October 1921).


I want to see the time come when black men will regard themselves as full participants in the benefits and duties of American citizens. We cannot go...

I want to see the time come when black men will regard themselves as full participants in the benefits and duties of American citizens. We cannot go...

I want to see the time come when black men will regard themselves as full participants in the benefits and duties of American citizens. We cannot go...

I want to see the time come when black men will regard themselves as full participants in the benefits and duties of American citizens. We cannot go...