Carol Moseley Braun - The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made rac...

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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

Carol Moseley Braun

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Der wirklich wichtige Sieg der Bürgerrechtsbewegung bestand darin, dass Rassismus unpopulär wurde, während vor einer Generation an der Wende des letzten Jahrhunderts Rassismus angenommen werden musste, um sich für irgendetwas zu entscheiden.

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