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 Copy Share Image
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint. — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them. — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . .… — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future. — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House. — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father,… — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook. — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also. — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
