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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learne

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. – Alex Haley

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My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. – Alex Haley

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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. – Alex Haley

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Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. – John Kasich

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In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes. – Al Roker

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Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society… It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. – Stephen Harper

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All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first. – John T. Flynn

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