Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houstonwas a prominent African-American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School, and NAACP Litigation Director who played a significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws, which earned him the title "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow". He is also well known for having trained future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth3 September 1895
CountryUnited States of America
white america people
Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.
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Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost
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The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.
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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.
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A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.
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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.
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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.
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A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.
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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.
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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.
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Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.