Ralph Abernathy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Future #African American #May
I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Tired #Black And White #Giving
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Black History #Patriotism #Tears
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Christian #Jesus #Godly
You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Jesus #Heart #Godly
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Kings #Saint #Luther
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#College #Textbooks #Great Depression
I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Brother #Kings #Luther
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#People #Hopeless
History will treat me right.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Treats
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Father #Men #Perfect
I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Kings #Taken #Bullets
I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Force
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
-- Ralph Abernathy

#Fighting #Jail #Parks

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