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I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a…
Quote byUlysses S. Grant · 1822–1885
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reportedly said to a neighbor in 1856, as quoted in A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant (1868), by Albert Deane Richardson, Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, p. 155. According to some other sources, he had also used this phrase in a letter to Robert E. Lee (General of the Confed.
English (original)
I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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