Charles Hamilton Houston Quotes

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

Charles Hamilton Houston

#2. We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#3. The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#4. 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.

Charles Hamilton Houston

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

Charles Hamilton Houston

#6. 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.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#7. Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#8. Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#9. A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#10. A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

Charles Hamilton Houston

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

Charles Hamilton Houston