"We were taking the black young men..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.
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“This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.”
“Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.”
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
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“To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.”
“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
“Many of them who belong to these countries that were former colonial powers have racist attitudes, but their racist attitude is never displayed to the degree that the America's attitude of racism is displayed. Never.”
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“The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.”
“Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.”
“Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.”