Dabbs made the following remarks at the Southwide Student Human Relations Conference held at Pheiffer College, Misenheimer, N.C., in November 1958. Report of the Southwide Student Human Relations Conference . James McBride Dabbs was a writer, theologian and civil rights advocate.
T here are two basic issues, the one tied in link to the other.
There is some question which is more basic than the other. The first issue I would put in this argument we are having in the South is an issue of belief. I don't see any question about that. The whites have been privileged too long and the Negroes unprivileged too long for anybody to say they should now be equal as races. In order to be a good citizen, you've got to consider these things and answer yes or no truthfully.