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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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"A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression."
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"A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist."
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"I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism."
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"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."
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"They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying."
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"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."
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"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."
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"If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!"
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"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."
Now
"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."
Life
"We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954."
History
"There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us."
Woman
"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished."
Fact
"King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience."
Legal
"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."
Society
"Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats."
Man
"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."
Encouragement
"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."
Writing
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