William Pickens
William Pickens
William Pickenswas an African-American orator, educator, journalist, and essayist. He wrote two autobiographies, first The Heir of Slaves, in 1911 and second Bursting Bonds in 1923, in which he mentioned race- motivated attacks on African Americans. both in the urban riots of 1919 and by lynching in 1921...
becomes
A insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.
dispel prejudice
If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
problem
It is not the ought-ness of this problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!
taken color prejudice
Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.