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Ralph Abernathy [1926-1990] American

Rank: 102
Activist, Minister

Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest friend. In 1955, he collaborated with King to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, which would lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Change, Future, History

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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.	Future	101
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.	Change, History	102
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.		103
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.		104
You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.		105
I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.		106
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?		107
He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.		108
I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.		109
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.		110
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.		111
I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.		112
I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.		113
History will treat me right.		114

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