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At The Heart Of That Western Freedom And Democracy Is The Belief That The Individual Man...is The Touchstone Of Value, And All Society, All Groups, And States, Exist For That Person's Benefit. Therefore The Enlargement Of Liberty For Individual Human Beings Must Be The Supreme Goal And The Abiding Practice Of Any Western Society.

If Any Man Claims The Negro Should Be Content... Let Him Say He Would Willingly Change The Color Of His Skin And Go To Live In The Negro Section Of A Large City. Then And Only Then Has He A Right To Such A Claim.

Religion Is A Salve For Confusion And Misdirection.

For There Is Another Kind Of Violence, Slower But Just As Deadly, Destructive As The Shot Or The Bomb In The Night. This Is The Violence Of Institutions; Indifference And Inaction And Slow Decay. This Is The Violence That Afflicts The Poor, That Poisons Relations Between Men Because Their Skin Has Different Colors. This Is A Slow Destruction Of A Child By Hunger, And Schools Without Books And Homes Without Heat In The Winter.

What We Need In The United States Is Not Division; What We Need In The United States Is Not Hatred; What We Need In The United States Is Not Violence Or Lawlessness; But Love And Wisdom, And Compassion Toward One Another, And A Feeling Of Justice Toward Those Who Still Suffer Within Our Country, Whether They Be White Or They Be Black.