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"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
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"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."
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"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."
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"A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains ignorant of what racism really is and how it works. It shows that people are in denial. Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?"
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"Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst."
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"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence."
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"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."
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"My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know."
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"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."
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"By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching."
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"I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism."
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"Fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles."
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"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
Affection

"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
Emotion

"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
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"He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
Politics

"The love of economy is the root of all virtue."
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"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."
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"The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older."
Change

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
Love
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