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This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
