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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447992" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prejudice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro's greatest foe!<br>It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can know.<br>'Tis blind to all that's lofty, yea, to truth it is opposed,<br>Degrading things will ope his eyes, while good will keep them closed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How cruel, too, is prejudice! how wicked is the tongue!<br>The evils reign supremely there, the bad is ever sung;<br>With some the Negro needs a soul, with others he's a brute,<br>In silence those remaining live and naught of this dispute.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The schools it legislates against, in keeping Negroes down,<br>Whatever tends to elevate it meets it with a frown.<br>It gives to them the Jim Crow car and vessels on the sea;<br>It makes the stockade to exist and take their liberty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It makes the press to vacillate up the Negro's name,<br>The pulpit makes a compromise with evil, for the same,<br>It makes the Pharaohs of today and seals them with its ban,<br>It strives to close the door of hope upon the Negro man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It causes mobs to formulate, to come and go at will,<br>At morning, evening, noon or night, a Negro man to kill,<br>It brings injustice to the courts when Negro men are tried,<br>It wrings the ballot from their hands—a thousand wrongs beside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is the country's greatest curse, the nation's open sore,<br>It slowly saps the precious life, is poison to the core,<br>Such ravages gave certain death to nations in the past,<br>The same will lay this country low, its fondest hopes will blast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It minimizes all that's good and magnifies the ill,<br>The devil's mission upon earth, it clamors to fulfill;<br>'Twas prejudice that caused the death of Christ upon the tree,<br>He knows the pangs that Negroes feel and gives them sympathy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When men refuse to see the light a darkness is assured,<br>Such blindness comes upon the scene as never can be cured!<br>Contagious is the dread disease, for Negroes learn to view<br>The white man with suspicious eyes, but here's a thing that's new.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Negro Problem of the land, and all the same entails,<br>Will be no more whene'er we find a sentiment prevails,<br>To bury prejudice so deep it never can arise<br>Till all the races of the earth shall meet above the skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twas God who made the Negro black, the reasons are His own<br>One blood the nations all the same, the facts are too well known,<br>He also made the Golden Rule, to use the neighbor well,<br>Shall prejudice among us dwell forever? who can tell?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lizelia+Augusta+Jenkins+Moorer">Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer</a><div class=q>
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It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can know.
'Tis blind to all that's lofty, yea, to truth it is opposed,
Degrading things will ope his eyes, while good will keep them clo..."></div>
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