You will meet all kinds of people in politics, fourflushers, fakers, windbags, those who shift with the political winds, those who play both sides of the fence--and a few sincere individuals. There are those who preach tolerance of the other person's views, but as soon as you disagree only in part all that tolerance has disappeared. You have suddenly become an ingrate and a no-good. You quickly discover that tolerance is only for those with whom the person agrees. And what good is it then?

The Appleton Press, August 27, 1948

Nothing makes the skin on my spine crawl so much as when I hear or read something from a member of the lets-have-war-with-Russia-now school They say, "Well, we are going to fight them sometime. Let's do it now, while we have the atomic bomb, and get it over with." [...] No, let's not go to war. Let's not even talk about starting one. [...] Let's keep striving for peace instead of talking about war.

The Appleton Press, October 23, 1948

I was kinda proud of my old alma mammy, the University of Missouri, when recent news dispatches announced students there had by a vote of 3 to 1 suggested that Negroes be allowed to take courses which were not offered in equal measure at nearby Howard University at Jefferson City.

The Appleton Press, February 25, 1949