Boiling Pot Quotes

Professor: The Ku Klux Klan. Does anyone know what that name means? The Ku Klux Klan? No one knows?
Valerie Davis: It's Greek. Kuklos. It means the circle.
Professor: Yes, that's one version of the story. Another etymology proposes an onomatopoeia. Ku Klux Klan. It's the sound of a cocking rifle. You see racism is rooted in violence. And violence is rooted in racism.

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Alexander Kraus: No one tells us to feel this way. We feel it on your own. It's not media that draws stereotypes. Television only mirrors reality. It's our experiences that tell us that there are good and bad people. And now I'm telling you. I'm telling you everything that you think but won't say.

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Valerie Davis: Our biggest flaw is not that we make mistakes. It's that we don't know when we make them.

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