Alabama v. King Quotes

“King would later write of the legal system: “I have a deep and abiding admiration for the legal profession and the tremendous role it has played in the service of the cause with which I have been identified. The road to freedom is now a highway because lawyers throughout the land, yesterday and today, have helped clear the obstructions, have helped eliminate roadblocks, by their selfless, courageous espousal of difficult and unpopular causes.”
― Dan Abrams, Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement

“Sadler accurately described the mindset of the white population of the city toward the Black community. Negroes were “treated right.” They were not entitled to equality but rather they were treated right, as defined by the white establishment. Similar words might have been spoken in Montgomery a century earlier, before the Civil War.”
― Dan Abrams, Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement

“Sadler accurately described the mindset of the white population of the city toward the Black community. Negroes were “treated right.” They were not entitled to equality but rather they were treated right, as defined by the white establishment. Similar words might have been spoken”
― Dan Abrams, Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement

“The fact that there was discrimination in the North wasn’t a secret; but it wasn’t practiced as openly or with the same level of legal protection.”
― Dan Abrams, Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement

“If you live and you haven’t stood for anything, you didn’t live for anything either.”
― Dan Abrams, Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement

“and federal courts have “judicial knowledge that harmony between Negro and white races in this city depends on continued segregation.”
― Dan Abrams, Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement

“The insults, the humiliations filtered into every aspect of life in Montgomery, literally from the hospital in which you were born to the cemetery in which you were buried. There were statues and plaques honoring Confederate heroes throughout the city, high schools and streets bore their names. The state officially celebrated Robert E. Lee’s birthday, Confederate president Jefferson Davis’s birthday and Confederate Memorial Day.”
― Dan Abrams, Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement