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The principles of fairness and equality for working men and women are deeply interwoven within the fabric of our nation's history. ”
Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that. ”
In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest. ”
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. ”
It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on. ”
Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can. ”
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before. ”
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. ”
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans. ”
Human nature being what it is, people don't want to acknowledge that a problem exists when they know they have 35 other problems to deal with. ”