Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.

in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.