Cornell William Brooks Quotes

• Mi vida es el producto directo, si se quiere, del legado de sangre, sudor y lágrimas de la NAACP, por lo que hoy tengo especialmente presente que la NAACP ha hecho de Estados Unidos lo que es, y sin duda ha hecho posible mi vida, y todos somos herederos agradecidos de ese legado.

  Cornell William Brooks

  Grateful, Blood, Sweat

  "NAACP Selects Lawyer Cornell William Brooks as New President". www.nbcnews.com. May 17, 2014.

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• To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of the counts thrown out, where you had 27 counts where it took the jury less than four hours to find them not guilty - that speaks to fact that here we have three civil-rights activists, acquitted. What we have here is a prosecution that was baseless, a prosecution that chilled African Americans right to vote.

  Cornell William Brooks

  Derechos, Personas, Afroamericanos

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Americans live in a country where African-American young men are twenty-five times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police than their white counterparts.

  Cornell William Brooks

  Country, Men, Police

  Fuente: www.cbsnews.com

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