“I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”
About This Quote
Ellen Cameron May, Serling in Creative Mainstream (profile/interview), Los Angeles Times (June 25, 1967), page C22-23.
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