A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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