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“The church must also become increasingly active in social action outside its doors. It must seek to keep channels of communication open between the Negro and white community. It must take an active stand against the injustice that Negroes confront in housing, education, police protection, and in city and state courts. It must exert its influence in the area of economic justice. As guardian of the moral and spiritual life of the community the church cannot look with indifference upon these glaring evils.”

“Telling the story of an important, sympathetic public figure is often difficult for the biographer at the inevitable turning point: the ampersand between rise and fall. The greatest successes are in the pages at the left. The pages on the right may be strewn with mishaps, unfinished projects, marital problems, sadness, illness, and end notes. Even when those pages also offer modest joys and major triumphs, as they did for Debussy, the reader knows how the story ends.”