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Talking Points
“If we stopped
testing right
now, we’d have
very few cases,
if any.”
—PRESIDENT TRUMP “Here’s
our day,
and if
you love us,
it’ll be
your day
too.”
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“SEGREGATION IS LEGALLY
OVER, BUT IT NEVER ENDED.
THE POLICE ARE, IN SOME
RESPECTS, A BORDER
PATROL, AND THEY PATROL
THE BORDER BETWEEN
THE TWO AMERICAS.”
—Jon Stewart
“HOLLYWOOD IS A
GRIM MICROCOSM OF
LARGER SOCIETY.”
—screenwriter rob edwards on
being black in show business
“We recognize
Aunt Jemima’s origins
are based on a
racial stereotype.”
—quaker foods north america
chief marketing officer
kristin kroepfl
“IT’S TIME FOR PEOPLE
TO REALIZE THAT
WE ARE ALL HUMAN.”
—Carlotta Walls LaNier, who was
one of the ɿrst black students
admitted to Little Rock’s Central
High School in 1957
“An employer who fires
an individual for being
homosexual or transgender
fires that person for traits
or actions it would not have
questioned in members
of a different sex.”
—supreme court justice
neil gorsuch
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Rob Edwards
Pharrell Williams
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