'Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?'; ... when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading 'white' and 'colored'; when your first name becomes 'nigger,' your middle name becomes 'boy' (however old you are) and your last name becomes 'John,' and your wife and mother are never given the respected title 'Mrs.'; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; ... when you [are] forever fighting a [degrading and] degenerating sense of "nobodiness"—then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. ... 