We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.
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,...
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...
In the context of today, this WAS heroism.
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.
After the first difficulties in Rochester, New York, I was asked to consult with community leaders. I went and spoke for quite a long time. The leaders were concerned and sincere men. The first questi...
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...
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...
We've reached a poor state when people are afraid that doing the decent and right thing is going to help the communist conspiracy.
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...
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.
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...
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...
He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.
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...
The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls and bodies of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecut...
It shows that the most obscene figures are not the ignorant ranting racists, but the legal minds who front for them, who invent for them the legislative proposals and the propaganda bulletins. They de...
He who is less than just is less than man.
He was not talking with US, but with his IMAGE of us.
Customers came - whites, Negroes and Latin Americans. Well-dressed tourists mingled with the derelicts of the quarter. When we shined their shoes we talked. The whites, especially the tourists, had no...