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In the racial picture things will never be as they once were. Hist

In the racial picture things will never be as they once were. History has reached a turning point, here and over the world. – Medgar Evers

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If we dont like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it. – Medgar Evers

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When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman. – Medgar Evers

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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War. – W. E. B. Du Bois

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I wasnt always black… There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger. – Bill Cosby

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As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. – E. J. Hobsbawm

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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesnt see Negroes hanging from its branches. – Jean Genet

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