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.

—Josephine Lawrence

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About Josephine Lawrence

Josephine Lawrence (1889–1978) was an American storyteller, novelist and journalist. Her works chronicled the lives of common people, with stories often filled with a large cast of bustling characters, emphasizing the everyday lives of children and the elderly.

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I am quite sure… I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices, nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All I care to know is that a man is a human being—that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

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Jon Stewart: Your mother is from Kansas. She's a white woman. Your father, African. Are you concerned that you may go into the voting booth and… your white half will all of a sudden decide, "I can't do this"?Barack Obama: Yeah. It's a problem.

—From The Daily Show, October 2008

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A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

—Carl T. Rowan

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If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities.

—Theodore M. Hesburgh

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