The document explores themes of prejudice and discrimination through various musical lyrics and quotes, highlighting the impact of societal conditioning on attitudes towards race, gender, and class. It includes reflections on the struggles faced by marginalized groups and the hypocrisy surrounding ideals of equality. In a satirical tone, it emphasizes the contradictions in societal behaviors during events like 'National Brotherhood Week' while calling for greater awareness and recognition of personal biases.

1. PREJUDICE The Musical P L A Y B I L L Earl Warren American Inn of Court

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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!

6. "Prejudice is the child of ignorance” William Haslitt

7. The Goodies

9. 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.

10. "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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. "Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition." Montesquieu

16. Myra Bradwell

17. Justice Joseph P. Bradley

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. Sandra O’Connor

23. Ruth Ginsberg

24. Hillary Rodham Clinton

25. Geraldine Ferraro

26. Carol Mosley Braun

27. Janet Reno

28. Barbara Jordan

29. Constance Baker Motley

30. “ Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy." Emerson

31. Shelley House St. Louis, Missouri Designated National Historic Landmark December 14, 1990

32. 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.

33. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. On the Street Where You Live Not right here on the street where you live. Not right here on the street where I live

38. "prejudice,n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support." Ambrose Bierce

39. Richard and Mildred Loving

41. Richard Loving and his son

42. 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.

43. 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.

44. 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.

45. "Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices-just recognize them." Edward R. Murrow

46. 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

47. 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

48. Love and Marriage Try, try, try to separate them It’s an illusion Try, try, try, and you will only come To this conclusion

49. 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

51. 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.

52. National Brotherhood Week But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week, Obama and McCain are dancing cheek to cheek. It's fun to eulogize The people you despise As long as you don't let 'em in your school.

53. 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.

54. 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!

55. 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.

56. 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 who Are inferior to you. It's only for a week, so have no fear; Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!

57. The End