Roy Wilkins Quote

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.


March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (August 28, 1963)


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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...