#race prejudice

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives. ↗

— Charles Hamilton Houston

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Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

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Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear. ↗

— Mary Church Terrell

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Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down. ↗

— Francis J. Grimke

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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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