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Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down. -- Francis James Grimke
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
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
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
Race prejudice is the devil unchained. -- Charles W. Chesnutt
Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice. -- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down. -- Francis James Grimke
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races. -- Ruth Benedict
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin. -- Bess Truman
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting. -- Grover Cleveland
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved. -- H. P. Lovecraft
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
The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. -- Carter G. Woodson
I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice. -- Nelson Mandela
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon. -- George Aiken
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow. -- Booker T. Washington
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. -- H. G. Wells
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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