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The intent of this program put on by the Earl Warren American Inn of Court was to show the pervasive nature of prejudice and the cases that had dealt with various types of prejudice.TRANSCRIPT
P L A Y B I L LEarl Warren American Inn of Court
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe
free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to
me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door
You’ve got to be carefully taught
You've got to be taught to hate and fear
You've got to be taught from year to year
It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught
You’ve got to be carefully taught
You've got to be taught to be afraid
of people whose eyes are oddly made
and people whose skin
is a different shade
You've got to be carefully taught
You’ve got to be carefully taught
You've got to be taught
Before its too late
Before you are six or seven or eight
to hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught!
You've got to be carefully taught!
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance”
William Haslitt
The Goodies
I've been working on the railroad
I've been working on the railroad,It's the only job I'll get,I've been looking for some others,But I ain't found nothing yet,There's-all those Yankee people saying,You're really not my guy,You can keep your Catholic praying,No Irish need apply.
"Shame on the cant and hypocrisy of those who can teach virtue, preach righteousness, and pray blessings for those only with skins colored like their own."
C. Lenox Redmond
Song for Yick Wo
I once owned a laundry, a laundry so fine,
And they came and told me, I had to resign,
Because I'm from China, and not USA,
The law came to tell me, I had to go 'way.
Song for Yick Wo
My washing's illegal, my ironing's a crime,
And I'd be in trouble, and maybe do time,
So now I'm a poor man, without any work,
And all I can say is THE LAW IS A JERK.
"Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition."
Montesquieu
Myra Bradwell
Justice Joseph P. Bradley
Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
Now there was a time, when they used to say
That behind every - great man.
There had to be a - great woman.
But oh, in these times of change
you know that it’s no longer true.
Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
So were comin out of the kitchen
cause there's somethin we forgot to say to you
We say sisters are doin it for themselves.
Standin on their own two feet.
And ringin on their own bells.
We say sisters are doin it for themselves.
Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
Now this is a song, to celebrate
We got doctors, lawyers, politicians too.
Everybody - take a look around.
Can you see - can you see - can you see
There's a woman right next to you.
Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
We say sisters are doin it for themselves.
Standin on their own two feet.
And ringin on their own bells.
Sisters are doin it for themselves.
Standin on their own two feet.
And ringin on their own bells.
Sandra O’Connor
Ruth Ginsberg
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Geraldine Ferraro
Carol Mosley Braun
Janet Reno
Barbara Jordan
Constance Baker Motley
“Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy."
Emerson
Shelley House
St. Louis, Missouri
Designated National Historic Landmark
December 14, 1990
On the Street Where You Live Song by Patty Patrician
I am white and rich, and I feel secure
That my neighborhood, will be ethnically pure
Neither black no Jew
Will impair the view,
Not right here on the street where I live.
On the Street Where You Live Song by Patty Patrician
I've a covenant, and I'll go to court,To enforce my rights,
and to get support,With judicial aid,I will have it made,And keep them off the street where I live.
On the Street Where You Live Song by Charlie Goldfarb
I have often rode, through this neighborhood,
But my looking never really did me any good,
‘cause we couldn't buy,
Couldn't even try,
As a Jew on the street where you live.
On the Street Where You Live Song by Charlie Goldfarb
There's a covenant, that is writ in stone,
Says you cannot sell, says we cannot own,
To live near a Jew
Simply wouldn't do
Not right here on the street where you live.
On the Street Where You Live
Not right here on the street where you live.
Not right here on the street where I live
"prejudice,n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support."
Ambrose Bierce
Richard and Mildred Loving
Richard Loving and his son
I walk alone
I walk alone,
Because the law says I have to be lonely,
I don't want to be lonely,
But the law tells me you'll
Be lonely too.
I walk alone
I walk alone,
Because the love that we share is not lawful.
Courts decree that it's awful,
For a black and a white,
To have the right.
I walk alone
We walk alone,
Because the law says that we cannot marry,
It's a burden we carry,
‘Cause of color of skin,
We must begin,
To walk alone.
"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices-just recognize them."
Edward R. Murrow
Love and Marriage
Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
This I tell you brother
You can’t have one without the other
Love and Marriage
Love and marriage, love and marriage
It’s an institute you can’t disparage
Ask the local gentry
And they will say it’s elementary
Love and Marriage
Try, try, try to separate them
It’s an illusion
Try, try, try, and you will only come
To this conclusion
Love and Marriage
Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
This I tell you brother
You can’t have one
You can’t have none
You can’t have one without the other
National Brotherhood Week
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks;
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.
National Brotherhood Week
But during National Brotherhood Week,National Brotherhood Week,Obama and McCain are dancing cheek to cheek.It's fun to eulogizeThe people you despiseAs long as you don't let 'em in your school.
National Brotherhood Week
Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie.
National Brotherhood Week
But during National Brotherhood Week,
National Brotherhood Week,
Liberals love the homeless 'cause it's very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand,
You can tolerate him if you try!
National Brotherhood Week
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.
National Brotherhood Week
But during National Brotherhood Week,National Brotherhood Week,It's National Everyone-Smile-At-One-
Another-Hood Week.Be nice to people whoAre inferior to you.It's only for a week, so have no fear;Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!
The EndThe End