Mordecai Wyatt Johnson quotes
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“Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.”
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“The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.”
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“The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .”
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“Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.”
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“When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.”
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“We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.”
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“There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.”
-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
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“They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.”
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Source : "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.
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“Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
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“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”
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“All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.”
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