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“The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by mistake since its colors are those of the London Reform Club. Once tied around its victim's neck, it strangles him gently and then claims the insurance before running off to Germany where it lives in hiding.”

Long Running Mistake Color Humorous Claims Victim Clubs London Stores Reform Gentleman Germany Department Necks Hiding Inches Tied

Author:Mike Harding

“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth,' or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.”

Ifs Should Dark Sea Color Mouths Claims Wine Lips Colour Shade Purple Bacchus

Author:Victoria Finlay

“Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.”

People Long White Color Racism Claims Denial Bias Racial Bias

Book:Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male

Source: Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male

“The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.”

Moral Rocks Policy Color Claims International Neighbor Bars Founders Pious Good Neighbor Moral Leadership

Author:Charles Hamilton Houston

“I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.”

People Way Littles Doe Matter Race Vision Honest Color Concerned Claims Blind Visions Of The Future Blind People

Author:Desmond Tutu

“All visible things would not claim as their king some color of their region, which is actually among the visible things of this region, but rather would say, he is the highest possible beauty of the most lucid and perfect color.”

Perfect Color Kings Highest Claims Visible Regions

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.”

Ifs Men Should Change Cities Color Skins Claims Equality Sections Equality Of People Equality Of Man Large Cities

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy