Gunnar Myrdal - Discrimination Quotes

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White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low in standards of living, health, education, manners and morals. This, in its turn, gives support to white prejudice. White prejudice and Negro standards thus mutually 'cause' each other.

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The breakdown of discrimination in one part of the labor market facilitates a similar change in all other parts of it. The vicious circle can be reversed.

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On the one hand, the negroes' plane of living is kept down by discrimination from the side of the whites while, on the other hand, the white's reason for discrimination is partly dependant on the negroes' plane of living.

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