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...skeptical of the ability of the law to help the Negro, King does not waver in his belief in the law's efficacy. "If laws are conscionably created, interpreted, and executed," he said at Harvard, "they must help the Negro." King manages to reconcile the two causes by his concept of his role as a lawyer. Essentially, he considers a courtroom appearance a chance to educate whites about Negroes. "I like to practice law," he says, "because I'm in the peculiar position of being able to talk to twelve people who have to listen to what I say. White...
Interestingly, King envisions the ultimate solution to the problem of discrimination neither in direct local action nor in individual law suits. Rather, he believes like Adam Smith in the concept of an "invisible hand," which leads men, in seeking their private good, to achieve the good of the community...
...Concept. Last week the Supreme Court took a giant step toward resolving the question by agreeing to review its first miscegenation case since 1883, when it upheld an Alabama law against interracial sexual relations (Pace v. Alabama). Now at issue is a Florida law that forbids a man and woman who are not married to each other and are of different races to "habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room...
...fine. The defendants appealed to the Florida Supreme Court and were turned down in light of what Justice Millard Caldwell called "the sound rule of stare decisis" (following precedents) and "the well-written decision" of Pace. Let the U.S. Supreme Court decide, added Caldwell caustically, "if the newfound concept of 'social justice' has outdated 'the law of the land' as therein announced...
...cried in the wilderness. We were called wild-eyed visionaries. Critics asserted that the human body should not, cannot and will not develop such a mechanism of self-destruction." By now Dr. Dameshek has far more supporters than detractors. Many of the supporters, Dr. Dameshek complains, accept his concept only if they can give it another name, "auto-allergy...