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Gordon Parks

"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."

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

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"I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian."

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

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"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."

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"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."

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"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point."

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"The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime."

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Gordon Parks
"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."

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Gordon Parks
"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."

Discrimination

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Gordon Parks
"There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know."

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Gordon Parks
"But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived."

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Gordon Parks
"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs."

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Gordon Parks
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."

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Gordon Parks
"I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing."

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Gordon Parks
"And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start."

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Gordon Parks
"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."

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Gordon Parks
"The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition."

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