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The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America.

Roy Wilkins

We cannot do it, and we shall not do it. We would have no right to be Americans, or to enjoy the respect of our fellows, or to receive the love and honor of our children if we voluntarily accept a lesser status.

Roy Wilkins

On racist violence in the South:

It is simply incomprehensible to us here today and to millions of others far from this spot that the United States Government, which can regulate the contents of a pill, apparently is powerless to prevent the physical abuse of citizens within its own borders.

Roy Wilkins

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

In this long climb, Negroes have had white allies since the first white Southerner violated the law by teaching slaves to read and write.

Roy Wilkins

.. first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

Roy Wilkins

Roy Wilkins

Roy Wilkins

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Born: August 30, 1901

Died: September 8, 1981 (aged 80)

Bio: Roy Wilkins was a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was in his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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