Essie Rubin Quotes in A Majority of One (1961)

Essie Rubin: Take a walk around Nostrand Avenue and you'll see. That element is moving in. The place is full of them.

Jerry Black: What element Mrs. Rubin?

Essie Rubin: You know what I have reference to: colored, puerto rican...

Jerry Black: Really, I seem to remember that in this very neighborhood year ago, they didn't allow Jews

Essie Rubin: What does one got to do with the other?

Jerry Black: Everything. Mrs. Rubin, the only way to stop prejudice is to stop it in yourself

Essie Rubin: But honestly, it's not a question of prejudice, I just don't like to live with them.