28 Quotes by Ralph Abernathy


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    I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

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    It’s not the name they call you, it’s the name you answer to.

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    I’m sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

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    Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain’t going to be turned around.

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    I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn’t get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

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    You may be assured that we won’t ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

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    I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

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