Discrimination proverbs

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◆ This color issue goes both ways. We have to watch how we put down one group to uplift the other.

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◆ I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

- Mark Twain98

◆ The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.

- Bill Clinton98

◆ Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination

- Andrea Dworkin98