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[hatman]

I'm now 2/3 of the way through Darrow's book. I used to read several books a week, but lately I've been spending more time online instead. He's actually just gotten to the point in the story where he started writing the book. Less than a year from the book's publishing date, I believe. But he's been philosophizing more. And there was mention of a post script to be attached. Well, we'll see.

Meantime, though, I thought I'd share a few more quotes from the latest chapter.

On meeting representatives from the NAACP:

Their great individual intelligence cannot be due to their white blood, because so many of my Southern friends assure me that persons of mixed blood take on the worst characteristics of both strains. Personally, I do not know, because I have never known any one who was not of mixed blood. And neither have I ever known what-all it was mixed with in its long journey from the sea urchin to man.

Actually, I'll skip the next quote because it turns out that I had the name confused and it wasn't as significant as I thought. Oh well.

So I'll just move on to one last one (for now):

No one knows so little about a man's ability to be fair as the man himself. To a man himself all his opinions, attitudes and prejudices are fair or he would not hold them.

It's an obvious thought, perhaps, but only if you take the time to think about it.

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[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Heh, that last quote is so true.