“… most Southerners of my parents’ era were raised to feel that it wasn’t respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn’t elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.”
Sarah Patton Boyle
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“… in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.”
Sarah Patton Boyle
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“… one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance … I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.”
Sarah Patton Boyle
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“… the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.”
Sarah Patton Boyle
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“… the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, “Be tolerant–even of evil.” Logically the next step would be to say to our commonwealth’s criminals, “I disagree that it’s all right to rob and murder, but naturally I respect your opinion.” Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.”
Sarah Patton Boyle
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“Love your enemies. I saw this admonition now as simple, sensible advice. I knew I could face an angry, murderous mob without eventhe beginning of fear if I could love them. Like a flame, love consumes fear, and thus make true defeat impossible.”
Sarah Patton Boyle
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