"One of the prices that we pay for……" — Ed Smith
"One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community."
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15 Quotes by Ed Smith
Ed Smith has 15 quotes on this site.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were…
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When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the…
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had…
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks…
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The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our…
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When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of…
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the…
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People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they…
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and…
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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