William Pickens Quotes

• Living together is an art.

  William Pickens

  Relationship, Art, Community

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• To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

  William Pickens

  Men, Law, Psychology

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• Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

  William Pickens

  Taken, Color, Inferiority

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• The best time to do something is when it can be done.

  William Pickens

  Done, Best Times

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• An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

  William Pickens

  Important, Insignificant

  William Pickens (1969). “The new Negro: his political, civil, and mental status, and related essays”

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• It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

  William Pickens

  Problem, Ought

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• . . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.

  William Pickens

  Thinking, Perfect, Age

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