"I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it and I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it".

"But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime".

“And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are.”

"Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority, but to their inhumanity and fear".

James Baldwin