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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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"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."
"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."
"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."
"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."
"The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery."
"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
"Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst."
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"Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s."
"Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank."
"The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money."
"For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people."
"In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us."
"Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth."
"Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship."
"The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe."
"Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data."
"Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians."
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