I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving.… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs.… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.” — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
