Programs do not come out of the minds of any one person or two people such as ourselves, but out of day-to-day work, out of interaction between organ… - Charles V. Hamilton

Lowndes was a truly totalitarian society—the epitome of the tight, insulated police state.

There can be no social order without social justice.

Institutional racism relies on the active and pervasive operation of anti-black attitudes and practices. A sense of superior group position prevails: whites are “better” than blacks; therefore blacks should be subordinated to whites. This is a racist attitude and it permeates the society, on both the individual and institutional level, covertly and overtly. “Respectable” individuals can absolve themselves from individual blame: they would never plant a bomb in a church; they would never stone a black family. But they continue to support political officials and institutions that would and do perpetuate institutionally racist policies. Thus acts of overt, individual racism may not typify the society, but institutional racism does—with the support of covert, individual attitudes of racism.