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" Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. "

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" I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less. "

" Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. "

Frederick Douglass

" Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. "

" Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. "

" Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. "

" My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. "

" In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. "

" When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. "

" Voting is how we participate in a civic society - be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It's the way we teach our children - in school elections - how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice. "

" Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. "

" In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. "

" A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower