[Wordsmith]

But in the end a man cannot be redeemed by a moral equivalence.

Bump for the truth.

[eddie willers]

I'll bump with just one of the many memorial passages in this excellent essay:

George Wallace, whose journey from racism to redemption was nothing less than Shakespearean, said it was suffering that finally expanded his imagination. Shot, paralyzed, and in constant pain for many years, he came to see himself in the black caretakers whom he had clearly grown to love. It is not conceivable that he would have stopped their children at the university door.