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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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"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?"

"You get so used to being hit you find you're always waiting for it. (...) How can I say what it feels like? I don't know. I know everybody's in trouble and nothing is easy, but how can I explain to you what it feels like to be black when I don't understand it and don't want to and spend all my time trying to forget it? I don't want to hate anybody - but now maybe, I can't love anybody either - are we friends? Can we really be friends?"

"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."

"They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying."

"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."

"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."

"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."
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"All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected."

"All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way."

"Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941."

"Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it."

"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."

"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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