Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.
- St. Augustine
A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.