General Discussion

The point of the legislation was not to change people's minds, it was to protect the lives of the innocent ad establish justice under the law. Erosion of those protections happens when white allies compromise with the white supremacists.

"I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice."

Martin Luther King Jr.