Source: “Commencement Address of Gen. Colin Powell (ret.) at Howard University, 1994,” May 14, 1994 (C-SPAN Video Library) Read the address on the American RadioWorks Say It Plain, Say It Loud: A Century of Great African American Speeches website.
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