John Oliver Killens Quotes
- Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies…
- My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.
- We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.
- We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom…
- What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same…
- The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.
- Along with the fight to desegregate schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America, we must desegregate the minds of the American people…
- Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.
- Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.
- Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.