Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.
Charles Hamilton HoustonWhether 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 HoustonA Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.
Charles Hamilton HoustonThe 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 HoustonA lawyerโs either a social engineer or โฆ a parasite on society โฆ A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.
Charles Hamilton Houston