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 Copy Share Image
A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America. — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race. — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society. — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided. — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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