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John Oliver Killens Quotes


Brief author info: John Oliver Killens (1916-1987) American writer, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter; writer-in-residence at universities, including Columbia University; works often focus on African American experience; addresses civil rights issues; espouses support for black aesthetics, on civil rights.


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What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!
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, and 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.
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