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“It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood...” Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
“I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
“We were Black Americans in West Africa, where for the first time in our lives the color of our skin was accepted as correct and normal.” Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than...” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“All nationalistic distinctions — all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect — are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.” George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
“I have seen Negro children who really cannot learn, particularly those who in their gelatin plate of babyness have been told they were inferior.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand…” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“a man can be honest in any sort of skin.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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