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"Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy."
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"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."

"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."

"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."

"Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others."

"Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America."

"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."

"There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back."

"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination."

"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
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"I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that."

"The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong."

"It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think."

"But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions."

"And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role."

"Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else."

"Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome."

"Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that."
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