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...with relatively little effect. Now the Government must realize more than that discrimination in America is morally intolerable. It must also realize that if integration is not enforced by the President and officers of the law, it will be fought for by men who have waited 300 years to attain full citizenship. The fight will be carried on with violence as well as words. And civil violence is in nobody's best interest...
...receive all or nearly all of their income from salaries (or from fees or royalties not sheltered from taxation). Such people typically have only meager net assets despite their hefty pretax incomes. Far from accumulating capital, they often have to borrow to put their children through college. They attain their levels of prosperity only after many years of gradually working their way up, bucking a headwind of ever higher tax rates. And as they approach their earnings peaks they find themselves paying tax rates that, measured by percentage of gross income, are on the same order as those actually paid...
Other students are canvassing Negro neighborhoods to discover how widely various products are used; only those with extensive distribution could be effectively boycotted. At the same time the canvassers are compiling a list of people who need jobs or want to attain better ones. Thus they will have a list of available workers if a company should decide to hire more Negroes...
...diversity; it admits students from varied social, economic, and psychological backgrounds. It is not Harvard's announced intention to encourage splintering, and at least one goal of general education is to open channels of serious communication among its diverse students. The program of general education has largely failed to attain that goal...
Morgenthau concluded that although generally the end justifies the means, not every end justifies every means. There are certain moral limitations imposed by each society so that no one would consider doing everything possible to attain...