William Pickens
William Pickens
William Pickenswas an African-American orator, educator, journalist, and essayist. He wrote two autobiographies, first The Heir of Slaves, in 1911 and second Bursting Bonds in 1923, in which he mentioned race- motivated attacks on African Americans. both in the urban riots of 1919 and by lynching in 1921...
problem
It is not the ought-ness of this problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!
problem ought
It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!
best time
The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.
becomes
A insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.
dispel prejudice
If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
done best-times
The best time to do something is when it can be done.
important insignificant
An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.
thinking perfect age
. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
taken color prejudice
Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.
men law psychology
To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.
art community together
Living together is an art.