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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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"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."

"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."

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

"Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism."

"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."

"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?"

"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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"Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."

"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."

"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."

"Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank."

"Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data."

"From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties."

"For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people."

"The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point."

"The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target."
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