Sublime

“The ultimate logic of racism is genocide,”

He was like a farmer trying to convince a sly mule that the way to the feed house went through the plow fields.

“‘Robert,’ he was addressing me, ‘haven’t some of the people from your school been able to go down and register without violence here in Pike County?’ I thought to myself that Southerners are exposed the most, when they boast.”

Amos—“when justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

At a far pole from accountable public trust, or constitutional duty, Hoover corrupted the FBI to wage political war.

King despaired. After nearly three years, his relationship with President Kennedy had run out of room. Although the movement needed federal intervention more than ever, realism told King he could not pressure President Kennedy an inch further. Brooding, he took the young Justice Department lawyer Thelton Henderson privately aside. “I’m concerned ab