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On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

~Eleanor Holmes Norton

Topics: American American Values Around Better Better Place Blacks Detour Equality Example Family Organization Place Road Than Treatment Values Women

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I don't for a moment believe that women have suffered the same kind of injustices that blacks have - women have never been enslaved. But still, many of the psychological and economic problems are the same.

~Eleanor Holmes Norton

Topics: Been Believe Blacks Economic Economic Problems Enslaved Injustices Kind Many Moment Never Problems Psychological Same Still Suffered Women

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Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate in 2012, a percentage about equivalent with 2008.

~Elizabeth Flock

Topics: About Advocacy Blacks Despite Electorate Equivalent Groups Liberal Minority Percent Percentage Right Suppression Tactics Voter Voting

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While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.

~Eric Holder

Topics: African African Americans American Blacks Country Couple Did Father He Known Loved Man More Never Oklahoma Places Refused Served Service South Spite Than Uniform Were Where While Who

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Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

~Ethel Waters

Topics: Basically Between Blacks Decided Difference More No Difference People Southerners Think Whites

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Doing a concert, I look at a room full of different people, and I see you've got Muslims, you've got Jews, you've got Christians, you've got gays, you've got straights, you've got blacks, you've got whites. I think, 'How can I unite these people through song?'

~Fantastic Negrito

Topics: Blacks Christians Concert Different Different People Doing Full Gays Got How Jews Look Muslims People Room See Song Think Through Unite Whites You I Think I See

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Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.

~Fat Joe

Topics: Any Black Blacks Different Different Way Each Every Ghetto Go He Latino Latinos Like Look Other People Together Two Two People Us Way You

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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.

~Fat Joe

Topics: Blacks Cities Every Inner Latinos Problem Problems Same Suffering

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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

~Flip Wilson

Topics: Anything Blacks Equal Equal Opportunity Having Me Negative Opportunity Regarding Ridiculous Say Tv Would

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It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a powerful voting bloc, no question, but they're liberal as well as conservative - and they're made of Latinos, blacks, whites.

~Franklin Graham

Topics: Been Bit Blacks Conservative Down Evangelical Hard Latinos Liberal Made Means No Question Pin Powerful Question Quite Quite A Bit Today Voting Well Whites

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