Occupation: Lawyer Birth: September 3, 1895 Death: April 22, 1950
A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him..
A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society..
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..
The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided..
Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost.
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..
Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles..
Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race..
A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understan….
The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leaders….
Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America..