Maggie Gallagher - The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginnin...

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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

Maggie Gallagher

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Die Tragödie der Bürgerrechtsbewegung ist, dass weiße gebildete Eliten, als sie den Beginn des Endes der Rassentrennung erreichte, vom Glamour der sexuellen Revolution mitgerissen wurden.

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