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Jane Elliot
January 17, 1947 -
Nationality: American
Category: Actress
Subcategory: American Actress

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

   

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

   

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

   

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

   

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

   

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

   

I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?

   

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