“Unity cannot be an end in itself. The emphasis on it in the past two decades has been a sign of the intellectual and moral chaos in which black America finds itself. Only the weak insist on being agreed with.”

“Only by creating loyal­ties to something more universal than our im­mediate tribe — to ideas and values like community, tolerance, plural­ism, and equality — can we begin the process of reciprocity and reconcil­iation between blacks and Jews.”