Cornell William Brooks Quotes

• My life is the direct product, if you will, of the legacy of the blood, sweat and tears of the NAACP and so today I'm particularly mindful that the NAACP has made America what it is, and certainly made my life possible and we are all grateful heirs of that legacy.

  Cornell William Brooks

  Grateful, Blood, Sweat

  "NAACP Selects Lawyer Cornell William Brooks as New President". www.nbcnews.com. May 17, 2014.

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• To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of the counts thrown out, where you had 27 counts where it took the jury less than four hours to find them not guilty - that speaks to fact that here we have three civil-rights activists, acquitted. What we have here is a prosecution that was baseless, a prosecution that chilled African Americans right to vote.

  Cornell William Brooks

  Rights, People, African American

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Americans live in a country where African-American young men are twenty-five times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police than their white counterparts.

  Cornell William Brooks

  Country, Men, Police

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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