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.

Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.