Walter Francis White Quotes

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All the peoples of the world are in the same boat now. Today, that vessel is unseaworthy because we have not yet mastered the science of living together. Through a major leak caused by color prejudice the waters of hate are rushing in. Our survival may depend on how swiftly and expertly that leak is caulked.

Walter Francis White

Either we must attain freedom for the whole world or there will be no world left for any of us.

Walter Francis White

There is no difference between the killer and the killed. Black is white and white is black.

Walter Francis White

I am white and I am black, and I know that there is no difference. Each casts a shadow, and all shadows are dark.

Walter Francis White

If we, as Americans, assure that no man is denied any right of citizenship because he is dark of skin or worships his God in a different place or was born elsewhere, then democracy can never be destroyed. But we also know that human freedom must be in the hearts of men and not solely on paper.

Walter Francis White

Man is building, at accelerated speed, a super-bridge of knowledge reaching to the stars.

Walter Francis White

Color prejudice creates certain attitudes of mind on the part of some colored people which form color lines within the color line.

Walter Francis White

Walter Francis White

Walter Francis White

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Born: July 1, 1893

Died: March 21, 1955 (aged 61)

Bio: Walter Francis White was an African-American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for almost a quarter of a century, 1931 1955, after starting with the organization as an investigator in 1918.

Known for:

A man called White (1948)
The fire in the flint (1924)
Rope and Faggot (1929)
A rising wind (1945)
Flight (1926)

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