There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.
Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.
Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.
Poverty affects people of all races.
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.