1.
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
2.
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
3.
Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.
Roy Wilkins
4.
Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.
Roy Wilkins
5.
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back
Roy Wilkins
6.
Nothing is more important than a good education.
Roy Wilkins
7.
. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.
Roy Wilkins
8.
It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.
Roy Wilkins
