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“There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.”

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Author:Shirley Chisholm

“There was not one cause for our internment, but many - a deep-seated racial prejudice working on top of fear, distrust, and greed. So how is one to say exactly where history begins or ends? It is all slow oscillations, curves, and waves which take so long to reveal themselves ... like watching a tree grow.”

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Book:Heart Mountain: A Novel

Source: Heart Mountain: A Novel

“if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.”

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Book:Let Us Consider One Another

Source: Let Us Consider One Another

“... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.”

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Book:Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.”

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Author:Thabo Mbeki

“In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”

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Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“In the biological sense, race does not exist.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s intelligence – it does not define an individual’s ambitions - it does not define an individual’s dreams – and above all, it does not define an individual’s character.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism