The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. . . . We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.
There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.