William Pickens Quotations

A insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

The best time to do something is when it can be done.

An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

Living together is an art.