“There's a white girl, Betty Anderson, down on Cricket Hill Lane parked under them mulberry trees across from the old Carter place getting run through by a colored boy in a bright red Plymouth Fury. You might wanna get out there before Big Jim Anderson find himself with a half-breed grandchild,” […]

strength (noun) + -en → strengthen

to demand justice

Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.