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Bigotry Quote by Alan King

“When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought…” quote by Alan King — Download Open image

“When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.”

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... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

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