Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

- Roy Wilkins

Nothing is more important than a good education.

- Roy Wilkins

Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.

- Roy Wilkins

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be…

- Roy Wilkins

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappoin…

- Roy Wilkins

It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.

- Roy Wilkins

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

- Roy Wilkins

Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

- Roy Wilkins