Naacp Quotations

The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration.

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

Nevertheless we want to address the concerns raised by the NAACP in the press as expeditiously as possible, ... If there is something there, we will deal with it. If not, we want to clear the program's name. We do not want unspecified allegations to impugn the integrity of a program that has been held in high regard locally and nationally.

I look forward to working with the NAACP in bringing immediate and ongoing aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was a heart attack that revealed a long history of social illnesses. You can't be human and watch all these different things go down and not do anything, ... People from all over the world are looking at these images and saying, wow; we just really want to help. So at the end of the day it's all of us.

Habitat and the NAACP have such similar values and principles, that this is a natural partnership. Both are committed to giving people a hand up, to social justice issues, to ensuring that everyone has equal access and opportunity, whether it is to housing or anything else.

We at the NAACP strongly believe this was a case of excessive force.

There will not be any rallies in the middle of any tracks, no NAACP rallies or anything of that nature, ... I don't want anyone to think we're coming in here trying to uproot something. We're just here to try and make this all better.

It was where the first NAACP meetings were held.

These members have to go back and face parents and students in their district, and they are going to have to explain their votes. These bills are unpopular, and you have a wide range of groups -- from the NAACP to women's groups to poverty groups working on this.

Rosa Parks served as an inspiration to generations of African-Americans and all people of good will. More than an icon, Mrs. Parks is symbolic of the thousands of courageous NAACP workers who fight for civil rights in their communities.

The NAACP will consider filing a lawsuit, or joining existing parties seeking court relief, to protect the voting rights of black voters. The NAACP favors out-of-state satellite voting sites and charges the state to meet the burden of making sure that African American voters receive accurate voter information.

The NAACP and everyone else can be assured that we will prosecute this case as diligently and as vigorously as we prosecuted the Lionel Tate case and every other serious case of this nature.

It's important that members vote because the NAACP has been a voice for people who have not been able to speak for themselves.

Not only is he diametrically opposed to all that the NAACP has worked for, but ... is intent on promoting his personal ideals and beliefs.

This is a good compromise. The NAACP and the city in talking about this realized we had some of the same goals. This was a pragmatic solution that serves, I think, everyone's interest.

Never again will NAACP find itself near financial ruin.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsals.