Randall Robinson Quotes

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Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness

Randall Robinson

What exactly is hate, and has it to be returned in kind? Can it afflict its victim with a muted form? The kind that doesn't preoccupy, past which one can smile and function civilly? Can the tumor, enlarged and hardened over time by a weather of ceaseless slights, be benign?... White-hot hatred would seem the proper reflex. But there is no survival there.

Randall Robinson

I have come to know race as a sealed dwelling with windows but no doors. One can look out but never leave.

Randall Robinson

America. America. Land of my birth and erstwhile distiess. Hypocrite immemorial. My heart left long ago. At long last, I have followed it. Trying my very best, how could I, in good conscience, remain for a countiy that has never ever, at home or abroad, been for me or for mine?

Randall Robinson

Randall Robinson

Randall Robinson

Born: July 6, 1941

Died: March 24, 2023 (aged 81)

Bio: Randall Robinson was an African-American lawyer, author and activist, noted as the founder of TransAfrica. He was known particularly for his impassioned opposition to apartheid, and for his advocacy on behalf of Haitian immigrants and Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Known for:

An Unbroken Agony (2007)
Quitting America (2004)
Makeda (2011)
The debt (2000)

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