Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkinswas a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was in his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth30 August 1901
CitySt. Louis, MO
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The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America.
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Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education. Be persistent and ornery: this will be good for the lethargic educational establishment and will aid the whole cause of public education.
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It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.
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. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.
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Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.
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President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.
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Nothing is more important than a good education.
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Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.
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Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back
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The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.