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" Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. "

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" America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. "

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