Venice Would Be A Fine City If

Wars Produce Many Stories Of Fiction, Some Of Which Are Told Until They Are Believed To Be True.

I Have Never Advocated War Except As A Means Of Peace.

I Believe That Our Great Maker Is Preparing The World, In His Own Good Time, To Become One Nation, Speaking One Language, And When Armies And Navies Will Be No Longer Required.

I Leave Comparisons To History, Claiming Only That I Have Acted In Every Instance From A Conscientious Desire To Do What Was Right, Constitutional, Within The Law, And For The Very Best Interests Of The Whole People. Failures Have Been Errors Of Judgment, Not Of Intent.

How Do People Come Up With A Date And A Time To Take Life From Another Man? . . . Twelve White Men Say A Black Man Must Die, And Another White Man Sets The Date And Time Without Consulting One Black Person. . . . They Sentence You To Death Because You Were At The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time, With No Proof That You Had Anything At All To Do With The Crime . . . . Yet Six Months Later They Come And Unlock Your Cage And Tell You, We, Us, White Folks All, Have Decided It's Time For You To Die, Because This Is The Convenient Date And Time.