Among Quote by Ed Smith

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind…

— Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

— Ed Smith

When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody…

— Ed Smith

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is…

— Ed Smith

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

— Ed Smith

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social…

— Ed Smith

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond…

— Ed Smith

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis.…

— Ed Smith

People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to…

— Ed Smith

The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own…

— Ed Smith

What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?

— Ed Smith

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those…

— Ed Smith