People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth. — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community. — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was. — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis.… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
