Quotes About Roy Wilkins

#1. With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins

Robert A. Caro

#2. The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

Roy Wilkins

#3. It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.

Roy Wilkins

#4. President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

Roy Wilkins

#5. The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.

Emma Lazarus

#6. Stupid, stupid-to be so careless with our time, to believe we had so much of it left.

Lauren Oliver

#7. Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.

Roy Wilkins

#8. Nothing is more important than a good education.

Roy Wilkins

#9. We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

Julie Walters

#10. Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

Roy Wilkins

#11. Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

Barry Eichengreen

#12. 55 percent - about 1.4 million veterans among this generation - said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America.

Howard Schultz

#13. Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

Mike Figgis

#14. First in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

Roy Wilkins

#15. Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

Roy Wilkins