"Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that."

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"Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that."

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"I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that."

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"The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong."

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"The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was."

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"I do think that our freedoms are at risk."

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