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Carl T. Rowan Quotes

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

Carl T. Rowan

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

Tags: minorities

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...

Carl T. Rowan

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...

Tags: change, great, god, believe

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Carl Thomas Rowan (August 11, 1925 – September 23, 2000) was a prominent American journalist, author and government official who published columns syndicated across the U.S. and was at one point the highest ranking African American in the United States government.

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

Carl T. Rowan

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

Tags: history, learning, library, people

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

Carl T. Rowan

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

Tags: home, world, injustice