John Mercer Patton

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“When an irresistible force such as you meets an old immovable object like me.”
—Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)

“... two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 16 (1962)