John Oliver Killens

John Oliver Killens (b. 1916)

• We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom for us to be black, or brown, an you to be white, and yet live together in a free and equal society. This is the only way that integration can bring dignity for both of us.
- Black Man's Burden
• What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same colour or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!
- Black Man's Burden

Yusuf Al Khal

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