Charles Hamilton Houston quotes
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“The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
“A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
“We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
“Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
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“Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
“Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
“A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
“A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
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“Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
“A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
“The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
“The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.”
-- Charles Hamilton Houston -
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