“It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.”
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.