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Jeffress resented the injustice of segregation and disenfranchisement, but he considered small economic advances the only realistic goals. "Let us teach every boy and girl to build and not tear down. Teach them that being God-fearing, property owning and debt paying citizens is greater than being a voter or being on social equality with [a] king" (speech, August 1942, quoted in Kreusler 1952, p. 21). He encouraged his followers to buy farmland or learn a vocational trade.
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