Carver speaks at a conference for young Southern white male YMCA members (1923), beginning his ground-breaking tours to white colleges. The Klan marches at Tuskegee. Carver's vision past seeing "race" as important.
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It is easy to interpret Christian love like Carver’s as accommodationist weakness; but the hate must end somewhere. “Hate,” he said, “is the very embodiment of everything that is wrong; nothing too revolting or destructive for it to do; turns us into fiends incarnate… [It] is Satan’s… two-edged sword, cutting right and left, destroying everything… noble and of good report… Like an infected snail,… it… leaves a slimy trail of miasma, sorrow, and death to… body and soul wherever it goes… Do not permit hate,” he warned, “to poison both mind and body, rendering it impossible to get real joy out of life; that is, we must not do to any human being a single thing that we would not be willing to have them do to us. It is asking too much of the Great Creator of all things to reverse the whole order of nature to accommodate our ignorance or willful misunderstanding. The fundamental law of the universe is to reap what we sow. If we sow oats, we expect to reap oats; if we plant corn, we do not expect to reap potatoes.
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“God,” he went on, “cannot build up a great spiritual kingdom upon the foundation of hate, prejudice, [and] greed. … “When we cease to love our fellow men, we have become… dangerous… because we have shut God (love) out of our lives… I have often said that if I was ever to show signs of hating people, I wanted the Great Creator to remove me before I degenerated to that extent.”
Love, on the other hand, he said, “is divine, is of God, must some day rule the world. It is the only force that has held the world together… to date… God is infinite, the highest embodiment of love. We are finite, surrounded and often filled with hate. We can only understand the infinite as we loose the finite and take on the infinite.”