Ralph Abernathy Quotes

• I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Future, Kwanzaa, African American

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• It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Names, Answers

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• Violence is the weapon of the weak.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Weapons, Violence, Weak

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• I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Tired, Black And White, People

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• If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

  Ralph Abernathy

  Fighting, Winning, Good Fight

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• Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Black History, Patriotism, Tears

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• Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Change, Christian, Jesus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

  Ralph Abernathy

  People, Hopeless

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• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  Ralph Abernathy

  Fighting, Jail, Parks

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• I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Kings, Taken, Bullets

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• History will treat me right.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Treat Me Right, Treats

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• You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Time, Jesus, Heart

  Ralph Abernathy (1989). “And the walls came tumbling down: an autobiography”, Harpercollins

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• I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Force, My Friends

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• I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Kings, Saint, Luther

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• The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Change, Successful, Competition

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• I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Brother, Kings, Luther

  "Rights Leaders Denouncing New Book by Ex-King Aide" by Peter Applebome, www.nytimes.com. October 13, 1989.

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• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Father, Men, Perfect

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• Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

  Ralph Abernathy

  College, Textbooks, Great Depression

  Ralph Abernathy (1989). “And the walls came tumbling down: an autobiography”, Harpercollins

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