Ralph Abernathy
Ralph Abernathy
Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, Sr.was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest friend. In 1955, he collaborated with King to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, which would lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In 1957, Abernathy co-founded, and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Following the assassination of King, Abernathy became president of the SCLC. As president of the SCLC, he led the Poor People's Campaign in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth11 March 1926
CityLinden, AL
CountryUnited States of America
He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
History will treat me right.
I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
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?
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.
If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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.
I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
Violence is the weapon of the weak.