Charles Hamilton Houston Quotes

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

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  People, Lost, No Hope

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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.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Engineering, America, Community

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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.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Race, United States, Problem

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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.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Children, Race, Circles

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

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Lawyer, Social, Parasites

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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.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Fighting, Office, Battle

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

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  White, America, People

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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.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  White, Support, Pay

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

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  College, Waiting, Forever

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

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Fighting, Race, Battle

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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.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Color, Moral Leadership, Rocks

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