She stood at the gate, waiting; behind her the swamp, in front of her Colored Town, beyond it, all Maxwell. Tall and slim and white in the dusk, the … - Lillian Smith

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

We in America – and men across the earth – have trapped ourselves with that word equality, which is inapplicable to the genus man. I wish we would forget it. Stop its use in our country: Let the communists have it. It isn’t fit for men who fling thei...r dreams across the skies. It is fit only for a leveling down of mankind.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.