Quote #3

Ignorance is not bliss -- it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

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  3. But we [Americans] are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts…
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  8. 'Why worry about race? In a century, we'll all be tea-colored!' Tallahssee, Florida Unitarian Church 1958 (Church was burned a week later.)

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