Charles Hamilton Houston Inspirational Quotes (6)

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.