7 Quotes & Sayings By Dick Allen

Richard Allen was born on February 28, 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of Second Chance: The Life and Death of Richard Allen, a biography of the civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1965 after leading the Poor People's Campaign and the Poor People's Legal Defense and Education Fund. Allen attended Morgan State University and received a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1962 and a master's degree in education from Morgan State in 1963. He has been a civil rights activist all of his life Read more

He has served as senior adviser to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as staff member for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), as director of staff at the Institute for Southern Studies (ISSU), and as executive director of the Southern Regional Council (SRC). Allen is also an author; his books include The Civil Rights Movement: Origins and Evolution (Prentice-Hall, 1970); The Civil Rights Movement (Macmillan, 1972); Negroes with Guns: The Military Arm of the Civil Rights Movement (JHU Press, 1975); The Black Muslims in America (Macmillan, 1978); and The Haitian Revolution: Race Against Time (Gale Research Company, 1982).

He has lectured widely on such subjects as racial justice and American history.

Once upon a time, there was a Zen signat every...
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Once upon a time, there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen. Dick Allen
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The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected. Dick Allen
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You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres, Dick Allen
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Itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling Dick Allen
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Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it. Dick Allen
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I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing. Dick Allen