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Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
William Pickens
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William Pickens
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: January 1
Died: 1954
Died: April 6
Educator
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Anderson County
South Carolina
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