Higginson in 1904
"As the memories of the slave period fade way, the mere fetich [sic] of colorphobia will cease to control our society, and marriage may come to be founded, not on the color of skin, but upon the common courtesies of life, and upon genuine sympathies of heart and mind."
Amazing thinking on miscegenation. And if one substituted appropriate words for homophobia in modern day, it could read as:
"the mere fetish of homophobia will cease to control our society, and marriage may come to be founded, not on the gender of two people, but upon the common courtesies of life, and upon genuine sympathies of heart and mind."
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