"In spite of all our earthman's good religious teachings and commandments, we have always been afflicted with superstition and bigotry, until it has become a complex. Our apparently groundless dislike of our fellow man leads us to regard him with antipathy, enmity, and even hatred for imaginary grievances. We get prejudiced against him because he may be of a different nation, language, religion, or color; or because he may not eat the same foods or wear the same kinds of clothes; or because he may wear long hair or beard; or because he may not follow our customs and manners. We take offense against him for his abstinence, envy him for his sober progressive industry, or become jealous of him for his studious qualities and professional knowledge and success. "Against these minorities and nations we first give vent to our vengeance, by baiting him with the utmost cruelty to acquire his land, property and wealth. "A tragedy of a large remnant of my ancestors occurred in the year 70, when Titus of Rome conquered the agricultural nation of Israel, taking them all away from Palestine to captivity in Italy. They were not allowed to continue in the pursuit of their chosen agricultural occupation, but were sold as slaves. On the fall of Rome they seem to have been freed, and they wandered among all Christian countries of Europe. Wherever they went, they were not allowed to purchase land to follow their old occupation of farming and cultivation or to join the labor guilds; they were forced to become money changers, lenders, traders, or tax collectors. "For long ages nearly all the great Christian religious bodies condemned the charging of interest on loans; therefore, some of their kings and feudal lords compelled the wanderers to become money lenders, using them by subterfuge as instruments to hold other lords in their power and to extort money from their people, and then taking the major portions of collections away from the money lenders. Other lords forcibly used them as tax collectors, all this starting, creating, and intensifying hatred and enmity against all of them everywhere. "Defenseless strangers, wanderers with a different religion, language, and customs, they always were the scapegoats. They were then cruelly subjected to contempt, injustices, tortures, and massacres. In 1492, they were subjected to atrocious tortures by the Spanish Inquisition.