"[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization."

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As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.

— Tom Lehrer