But there are differences. The social studies I’ve read … They don’t deal with any basic difference in human nature between black and white, I said. They only study the effects of environment on human...
In no instance were these reports true or were any of these cities actually in flames. But the result was immediate action on the part of white officials. They got in contact with important community...
Fear dims even the sunlight.
To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.
We've reached a poor state when people are afraid that doing the decent and right thing is going to help the communist conspiracy.
The same principle held in black universities, where students demanded more and more black teachers. White professors who had virtually dedicated their lives and their academic careers as historians,...
It was the ghetto. I had seen them before from the high altitude of one who could look down and pity. Now I belonged here and the view was different. A first glance told it all. Here it was pennies an...
I spent years, he told me, studying the phenomenon of love.And I spend years studying the phenomenon of justice.At base, we spend years studying the same thing.
He was not talking with US, but with his IMAGE of us.
You can't get around what's right, though, he said. When we stop loving them, that's when they win.
Yes, and then it’s these things that cause the whites to say we’re not worthy of first-class citizenship. Ah … He dropped his hands to his sides hard in frustration. Isn’t it so? They make it impossib...
We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.
This system of discrimination, an inculcated double standard, may vary in content from culture to culture, but it is always unjust. There are thousands of kinds of injustice but there is only one kind...
The delusion lies in the fact that no matter how well we think we know the Other, we still judge from within the imprisoning framework of our own limited cultural criteria, we still speak within the c...
We need a conversion of morals, the elderly man said. Not just superficially, but profoundly. And in both races. We need a great saint-some enlightened common sense. Otherwise, we'll never have the ri...
He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.
What fragmented individualism really meant was what happened to a black man who tried to make it in this society: in order to succeed, he had to become an imitation white man - dress white, talk white...
He told me how all of the white men in the region craved colored girls. He said he hired a lot of them both for housework and in his business. And I guarantee you, I’ve had it in every one of them bef...
He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.
But part of that incipient racism had always led whites to assume the leadership positions and perpetuated the view that whites rather than blacks were the heroes of the movement.