... as a result of generations of betrayal, it's nearly impossible for Southern Negroes to trust a Southern white. No matter what ...he does or what he suffers, a white liberal is never established beyond suspicion in the hearts of the minority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know, when these New Negroes have their convention--that is going to be the chairman of the Committee on Unending Agitation. R...ace, race, race!... Damn, even the N double A C P takes a holiday sometimes!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minoriti...es.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no question but that you and I think alike in the great objectives of the peace when it comes. The real problem lies in t...he methods to be used to attain peace without hate.... [I]t is my thought that time is an essential in disseminating the ideals of peace among the very diverse nationalities and national egos of a vast number of separate peoples who, for one reason or another over a thousand years, have divided themselves into a hundred different forms of hate.... Therefore, I have been visualizing a superimposed--or if you like it, a superassumed--obligation by Russia, China, Britain and ourselves that we will act as sheriffs for the maintenance of order during the transition period.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good way to think about television--in fact all the media--is as a kind of telescope in the sky, flying around, constantly looki...ng. Then from its perch in the sky, it zooms down to a single spot on the planet, a small group of people shooting each other. It takes this single event out of billions and billions of other little events and sends it zooming through space to television antennas, and then out through an electron gun into (on the average) 30 million people sitting at home in dark rooms with their eyes still. The event gets reconstructed in the brains of these people as an image. Recorded. All these 30 million people have recorded the same image from this single distant spot where they are not. This becomes their experience of that moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And so we ask for peace for the gods of our fathers, for the gods of our native land. It is reasonable that whatever each of us wo...rships is really to be considered one and the same. We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe compasses us. What does it matter what practical systems we adopt in our search for the truth. Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a firs...t-class university for the education of colored men ... and I wish to put in this caveat ... that the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we could produce one or two more Madame Curies, that would accomplish far more for the advancement of women than any amount of ...agitation, argument and legislation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to ...maintain its own existence, in great emergencies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »