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A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people. It is not necessary that people be wicked but only that people be spineless.

I sometimes think with despair that Americans will swallow whole any political speech whatever. They been doing very little else these last bad years.

…Totally unprepared as is the way with American he man for anything that could not be settled with a club or a fist or a gun. I might have pitied them if I had not found myself in their hands so often and discovered through ugly experience what they were like when they held the power and what they were like when you held the power

There was no love in the church. It was a mask for hatred and self hatred and despair. The transfiguring power of the Holy Ghost ended when the service ended and salvation stopped at the church door. When we were told to love everybody I had thought that meant everybody but no it applied only to those who believed as we did.

I unquestionably wanted to be somebody’s little boy. Inevitably someone would’ve taken me over. One doesn’t in Harlem long remain standing on any auction block.

“If the concept of God has any validity, or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”

And yet power is real, and many things, including, very often, love, cannot be achieved without it.