Not always according to our capacity and not always with equal pay-but jobs. And then we moved to a third stage. Call it civil rights. And for us, as for other minorities, there was only one way to get there-confrontation. The status quo always fights change.
Many people think that civil rights and integration are the same thing.
The concept of civil rights precedes integration and is a necessary precursor to it. And we have done those things, all of them. We had to. But there comes a day after civil rights. The laws, the court cases, the confrontations, the jobs, and even the satisfying of hunger can never be our prime focus.