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"We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?"
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"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."
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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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"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."
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"I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism--in order to believe themselves to be nonracist."
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"Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again."
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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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"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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"Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism."
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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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"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."
Life

"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."
Racism

"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."
Cultural

"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."
Life

"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian."
Thought

"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."
Society

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."
Parenting

"Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms."
Action

"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."
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"The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society."
Society
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