Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

I live to harass white folks.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.