Looking Back, I Have This To Regret,

Most Of Us Have Collections Of Sayings We Live By. . . . Whenever Words Fly Up At Me From The Printed Page As I Read, I Intercept Them Instantly, Knowing They Are For Me. I Turn Them Over Carefully In My Mind And Cling To Them Hard.

There Must Be A Technique For Meeting Pain. There Must Be A Technique Of Endurance Based On The Power Of The Soul To Maintain Its Own Serenity, As Marcus Aurelius Taught Long Ago.

A Few Years Ago No Hotel Or Restaurant In Boston Refused Negro Guests; Now Several Hotels, Restaurants, And Especially Confectionary Stores, Will Not Serve Negroes, Even The Best Of Them.

The Discrimination Is Not Made Openly, But A Negro Who Goes To Such Places Is Informed That There Are No Accommodations, Or He Is Overlooked And Otherwise Slighted, So That He Does Not Come Again.

In The Beginning I Thought, And Still Think, He Did Great Good In Giving Support And Encouragement To This Movement. But I Did Not Believe Then, And Have Never Believed Since, That These Ills Can Be Settled By Partisan Political Methods. They Are Moral And Economic Questions.