Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. It is the arrogant assertion that one race is the center of value and object of devotion, before which other races must kneel in submission. . . . Racism is total estrangement. Among the moral imperatives of our time, we are challenged to work all over the world with unshakable determination to wipe out the last vestiges of racism. . . .
Racism is no mere American phenomenon.
Its vicious grasp knows no geographical boundaries. One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Some men have sincerely felt that its actual practice is not possible. . . . Jesus, they say, was an impractical idealist. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. . . .