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"We are the warders of the Golden Gate; we must stand here forever in the pathway of the Orient, and if there is any danger or trial it is for us to sound the alarm. I regard the Chinese question as a race question. I regard it as an international question; and above and overall, a question regarding our preservation as a civilization." -Excerpt from San Francisco Mayor James D. Phelan's address at the Chinese Exclusion Convention (The San Francisco Call )
..[H]istory also teaches us that before Asian-Americans were seen as model minorities, we were also perpetual foreigners. Taken together, these perceptions can lead to resentment. And resentment can lead to hate." -Frank Wu, Detroit native and lawyer (Wu, "Why Vincent Chin Matters")
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