If Our American Way Of Life Fails

Anger Can Give Energy To The Mind But Only If It Is Harnessed And Held In Control.

Endurance Of Inescapable Sorrow Is Something Which Has To Be Learned Alone. And Only To Endure Is Not Enough. Endurance Can Be A Harsh And Bitter Root In One's Life, Bearing Poisonous And Gloomy Fruit, Destroying Other Lives. Endurance Is Only The Beginning. There Must Be Acceptance And The Knowledge That Sorrow Fully Accepted Brings Its Own Gifts. For There Is An Alchemy In Sorrow. It Can Be Transmuted Into Wisdom, Which, If It Does Not Bring Joy, Can Yet Bring Happiness.

Too Many Escape Into Complexity These Days. For It Is An Escape For Persons To Cry, When This Question Of The Equality Of Peoples Is Raised In India Or In Our Own South, 'ah, But The Situation Is Not So Simple.' ... No Great Stride Forward Is Ever Made For The Individual Or For The Human Race Unless The Complex Situation Is Reduced To One Simple Question And Its Simple Answer.

There Is An Alchemy In Sorrow. It Can Be Transmuted Into Wisdom, Which, If It Does Not Bring Joy, Can Yet Bring Happiness.

People On The Whole Are Very Simple-minded, In Whatever Country One Finds Them. They Are So Simple As To Take Literally, More Often Than No, The Things Their Leaders Tell Them.