Melvin B. Tolson Quotes

• The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Men, Heaven, Firsts

  Melvin B. Tolson (1982). “Caviar and Cabbage”

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• Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism . . . We advance.

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Lying, Labyrinth, Deceit

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• A civilization is always judged in its decline.

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Civilization, Decline, Judged

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• Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Dream, Men, Vision

  Melvin B. Tolson (1982). “Caviar and Cabbage”

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• When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Poet, Exceptional, Historian

  Melvin B. Tolson (1982). “Caviar and Cabbage”

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