George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Negro
• Inferiority
• American Nation
• Bootblack

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• The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Fact
  • Negro
  • Inferiority