John Mercer Patton

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“I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.”
—Bishop John Spong (b. 1931)

“I’m a cowboy who never saw a cow.”
—Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)

“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance ... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 10 (1962)