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Charles Hamilton Houston Quotes: Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.
         

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

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



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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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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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Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.



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A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.



A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.



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.

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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Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.



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The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.



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