Quotes from Carl T. Rowan

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in the history.

The library is the temple of learning and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.