The racism, bigotry and poverty in the South made me a liberal.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Don't hate people, hate the beliefs that make those people less than they could be.

All his life, he fought against bigotry, racism and discrimination. He wasn't going to come and be buried in a situation like that. I had to assure him it was no longer a segregated plot.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. It is therefore realized on all sides that however ofter Persia, or Egypt, or Java, or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs.