" The black community had less sense of brotherhood in
those days, and, worse yet, black people were almost all afraid. They feared, and justly, the power the white man had over their lives. "The Man will get you," they would warn. "You
can't win." The few black people who had jobs through city
appointments were the worst of all. If they showed the slight-
est sign of opposing the system, they were warned, sometimes                          subtly and sometimes overtly, "Don't bite the hand that's
feeding you." Many black men who could have become
leaders were neutralized that way. Their jobs were the most
important things to them; they held on to what they had. "

― , Unbought And Unbossed