I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
More Quotes by Ralph Abernathy
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
History will treat me right.