John Mercer Patton

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    “You’ve got to
    Accent-tchu-ate the positive.”
    —Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)

    “A man’s real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he spouts in easy times.”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 13 (1962)