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Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohi ...
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.
I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I f ...
... two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And ...
... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] ps ...
... not only have we exploited them physically and economically to bring ease to our bodies and our purses, but also we have explo ...
... as a result of generations of betrayal, it's nearly impossible for Southern Negroes to trust a Southern white. No matter what ...
... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance ...
They had supposed their formula was fixed.
They had obeyed instructions to devise
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I had to kick their law into their teeth in order to save them.
However I have heard that sometimes you have to deal
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