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Posted: 2018-11-13T11:19:40Z | Updated: 2018-11-13T22:36:44Z

A column that Marvel Comics visionary Stan Lee penned on racism 50 years ago is again going viral following his death Monday at the age of 95 .

In 1968, Lee declared in one of his Stans Soapbox segments that bigotry and racism were among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. He suggested the only way to destroy them was by revealing them for the insidious evils they really are:

Stan Lee leaves behind a complicated legacy. He brought joy to the world while causing pain to the little guy behind-the-scenes. But if we can take something positive from the life he lived, its that he made sure to take a public stand when it mightve cost him.

December, 1968: pic.twitter.com/9U5TeTtXLc

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Stan Lee leaves behind a complicated legacy. He brought joy to the world while causing pain to the little guy behind-the-scenes. But if we can take something positive from the life he lived, its that he made sure to take a public stand when it mightve cost him.

December, 1968: pic.twitter.com/9U5TeTtXLc

Siddhant Adlakha (@SidizenKane) November 12, 2018

Heres the full text:

Lets lay it right on the line. Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. But, unlike a team of costumed super-villains, they cant be halted with a punch in the snoot, or a zap from a ray gun. The only way to destroy them is to expose them to reveal them for the insidious evils they really are. The bigot is an unreasoning hater one who hates blindly, fanatically, indiscriminately. If his hang-up is black men, he hates ALL black men. If a redhead once offended him, he hates ALL redheads. If some foreigner beat him to a job, hes down on ALL foreigners. He hates people hes never seen people hes never known with equal intensity with equal venom.

Now, were not trying to say its unreasonable for one human being to bug another. But, although anyone has the right to dislike another individual, its totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race to despise an entire nation to vilify an entire religion. Sooner or later, we must learn to judge each other on our own merits. Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance. For then, and only then, will we be truly worthy of the concept that man was created in the image of God a God who calls us ALL His children.

Pax et Justitia, Stan.