“Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.”
Jon Stewart
Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
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