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Charles Hamilton Houston

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[Wikipedia] Charles Hamilton Houston Sr. was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and the first special counsel of the NAACP. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially combating segregation in s

Quotes by Charles Hamilton Houston

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive…

Charles Hamilton Houston

African american

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Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost

Charles Hamilton Houston

Education

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Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

Charles Hamilton Houston

America

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Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Charles Hamilton Houston

Battle

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The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my…

Charles Hamilton Houston

American

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A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

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Engineers

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Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight…

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Battle

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We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles…

Charles Hamilton Houston

America

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The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

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College

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The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses…

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Buried

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The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims…

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Bars

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A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress…

Charles Hamilton Houston

Education

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