Amelia Boynton Robinson Quotes & Sayings

Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I'm a member of the human race. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

I wasn't looking for notoriety [when we marched]. But if that's what it took [to get attention], I didn't care how many licks I got. It just made me even more determined to fight for our cause. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

A voteless people is a hopeless people. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

It's important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

Remember, this is your day and your world. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been. — Amelia Boynton Robinson