Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by William Pickens

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist William Pickens.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

William Pickens was an American orator, educator, journalist, and essayist. He wrote two autobiographies, first The Heir of Slaves, in 1911 and second Bursting Bonds in 1923, in which he mentioned race-motivated attacks on African Americans, both in the urban riots of 1919 and by lynching in 1921.

American - Journalist | January 15, 1881 - April 6, 1954

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An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

William Pickens

Living together is an art.

William Pickens

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 And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

William Pickens

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

William Pickens

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

William Pickens

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.

William Pickens

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

William Pickens

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by William Pickens

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