I Have Loved My Work, I Have

A Man Does Not Look Behind The Door Unless He Has Stood There Himself

One Reads The Truer Deeper Facts Of Reconstruction With A Great Despair. It Is At Once So Simple And Human, And Yet So Futile. There Is No Villain, No Idiot, No Saint. There Are Just Men; Men Who Crave Ease And Power, Men Who Know Want And Hunger, Men Who Have Crawled. They All Dream And Strive With Ecstasy Of Fear And Strain Of Effort, Balked Of Hope And Hate. Yet The Rich World Is Wide Enough For All, Wants All, Needs All. So Slight A Gesture, A Word, Might Set The Strife In Order, Not With Full Content, But With Growing Dawn Of Fulfillment. Instead Roars The Crash Of Hell.

Is A Civilization Naturally Backward Because It Is Different? Outside Of Cannibalism, Which Can Be Matched In This Country, At Least, By Lynching, There Is No Vice And No Degradation In Native African Customs Which Can Begin To Touch The Horrors Thrust Upon Them By White Masters. Drunkenness, Terrible Diseases, Immorality, All These Things Have Been Gifts Of European Civilization.

Honest And Earnest Criticism From Those Whose Interests Are Most Nearly Touched,- Criticism Of Writers By Readers, Of Government By Those Governed, Of Leaders By Those Led, - This Is The Soul Of Democracy And The Safeguard Of Modern Society

The Theory Of Democratic Government Is Not That The Will Of The People Is Always Right, But Rather That Normal Human Beings Of Average Intelligence Will, If Given A Chance, Learn The Right And Best Course By Bitter Experience.