CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON

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

Segregation of schools is no accident.

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.

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

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.

In every fight, some fall.

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

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 race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In every fight, some fall.

Segregation of schools is no accident.

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

The Negro lawyer must be trained as a social engineer and group interpreter. Due to the Negro's social and political condition ... the Negro lawyer must be prepared to anticipate, guide and interpret his group advancement.... Moreover, he must act as business advisor ... for the protection of the scattered resources possessed or controlled by the group.... He must provide more ways and means for holding within the group the income now flowing through it.

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

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 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.