“I do believe that as long as they are human problems—because they are buried in the human heart rather than ones merely to be solved by a sense of logic and right—we must have patience and forbearance. . . . We must make sure that enforcement will not in itself create injustice.” Fred Morrow, who had done so much to arrange Ike’s appearance at the event, wrote later, “I could feel life draining from me, and I wished I could escape.” A furious Roy Wilkins issued a bitter statement that very night: “We have been patient and we have been moderate and all we get for it is a kick in the teeth.”
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