At the moral retchings and manly revolt of the victim against this unequal treatment the South either sneers or else grows angry, because it affects to see in them the Negro's ambition for social equality, his secret desire to leave his class and to enter that of the whites and to marry white women.
He critiques the Southern response to Black resistance against unequal treatment as a misunderstanding of their aspirations.
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It should make this a day of fasting and prayer, not of boisterous merriment and idle pageantry--a day of great lamentation, not of congratulatory joy.
Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?
But ignorance is a breeder of crime just as poverty is.
I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.