He added: «Such is the changing nature of the world that we need to readjust to reclaim the system, and thereby the streets, for the decent majority.This is not
the argument of the lynch mob, or of people who are indifferent to convicting the innocent, but it is simply a rational and reasonable answer to the problem.»
The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many
of whom used religious
arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers,
lynching, firebombing churches...