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...when we strip away the myths of his "superhuman kindness," he remains a peculiarly modest figure who wore a shabby waistcoat, worked 16-hour days and read extensively. (By contrast, Stalin did not know that the Netherlands and Holland were the same country, and no one in the Kremlin inner circle was brave enough to set him straight...
...self-executing. It takes leadership to bring democracy to life. Great democratic leaders are visionaries. They have an instinct for their nation's future, a course to steer, a port to seek. Through their capacity for persuasion, they win the consent of their people and call forth democracy's inner resources...
...alarmed him: "Nigger, we are tired of you and your mess now. And if you aren't out of this town in three days, we're going to blow your brains out and blow up your house." Shaken, King went to the kitchen to pray. "I could hear an inner voice saying to me, 'Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth. And lo I will be with you, even until the end of the world...
...only much later that I learned to call these novels noir, or to think about them as part of an American tradition of mystery writing and film. At the time they dominated my inner life...
...they stayed in these places and showed that they "knew their place" by not assuming too much authority or trying to step beyond those arenas, blacks have been able to achieve considerable success. This explains the abundance of professional basketball and football aspirants in the school yards of the inner city, as well as the preponderance of street corner rappers...