Robert F. Williams Quotes

• I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence.

  Robert F. Williams

  Order, Law, Ku Klux Klan

  "Negroes with Guns". Book by Robert Franklin Williams, 1998.

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• Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.

  Robert F. Williams

  People, Doe, Records

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• The violence that we had in the 60's was limited. The next time it will be unlimited because the violence in the 60's was a struggle for human dignity and for human rights. The next struggle will be a struggle for survival and it will not just be limited to Black people or Black against white, but it will be the poor people, the masses of the people of the country, struggling for the right to live or the right to survive.

  Robert F. Williams

  Country, Struggle, White

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• We must meet violence with violence.

  Robert F. Williams

  Violence

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• The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

  Robert F. Williams

  Self, Principles, Defense

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• One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state. The next day it’s waste paper.

  Robert F. Williams

  Next Day, Law, One Day

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