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

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 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

Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost

- 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

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understan…

- Charles Hamilton Houston

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

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

- Charles Hamilton Houston