Word: asses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United Press Ass...
...voice of Africa, singing contentment amid suffering and tragedy-I remember tales of travelers who had seen hundreds of black men chained together, singing as they were marched to the sea. They are docile animals. The Negroes are, next to the ass, the most patient of all animals...
...this and I know my wife would tell me not to. I wish I did have patience, but I haven't. But what I want to ask General Smuts is what he meant when he associated the Negro with the jackass-I mean the ass -what he meant when he called us 'docile animals.' . . . I'm sure no insult was meant but when he used those words, it hurt. It cut like a two-edged sword through the heart of every Negro and we Negroes would leave this hall with a bad taste in our mouth...