A Majority of One (1961)

Mae Questel: Essie Rubin

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• Essie Rubin : Take a walk around Nostrand Avenue and you'll see. That element is moving in. The place is full of them.

  Jerry Black : What element Mrs. Rubin?

  Essie Rubin : You know what I have reference to: colored, puerto rican...

  Jerry Black : Really, I seem to remember that in this very neighborhood year ago, they didn't allow Jews

  Essie Rubin : What does one got to do with the other?

  Jerry Black : Everything. Mrs. Rubin, the only way to stop prejudice is to stop it in yourself

  Essie Rubin : But honestly, it's not a question of prejudice, I just don't like to live with them.