Life Has Its Pains And Evils-its Bitter

I Believe In Pride Of Race And Lineage And Self: In Pride Of Self So Deep As To Scorn Injustice To Other Selves.

I Am Especially Glad Of The Divine Gift Of Laughter: It Has Made The World Human And Lovable, Despite All Its Pain And Wrong.

Now Is The Accepted Time, Not Tomorrow, Not Some More Convenient Season. It Is Today That Our Best Work Can Be Done.

Today I See More Clearly Than Yesterday That The Back Of The Problem Of Race And Color Lies A Greater Problem Which Both Obscures And Implements It: And That Is The Fact That So Many Civilized Persons Are Willing To Live In Comfort Even If The Price Of This Is Poverty, Ignorance, And Disease Of The Majority Of Their Fellow Men.

Had It Not Been For The Race Problem Early Thrust Upon Me And Enveloping Me, I Should Have Probably Been An Unquestioning Worshipper At The Shrine Of The Established Social Order And Of The Economic Development Into Which I Was Born.