"Remember that leering, cursing lynch mob in Little Rock reviling a meek, innocent little 12-year-old..."

“Remember that leering, cursing lynch mob in Little Rock reviling a meek, innocent little 12-year-old Negro girl as she tried to enroll in public school? Weren’t they—or most of them—devout churchgoers? I detest the two-faced who pretend liberality but are practiced bigots in their own mean little spheres. I didn’t tell my daughter whom to marry, but I’d have broken her back if she had had big eyes for a bigot. As I see it, man is a product of his conditioning, and the social forces which mold his morality and conduct—including racial prejudice—are influenced more by material things like food and economic necessities than by the fear and awe and bigotry generated by the high priests of commercialized superstition. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m for decency—period. I’m for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday—cash me out.”



- Frank Sinatra - interviewed for Playboy in 1963 by Joe Hyams (via apoplecticskeptic)

Woah. “But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday—cash me out.”

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