Quotes by John Hope

“We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.”

“If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.”

“Rise, Brothers! Come let us possess this land. Never say: Let well enough alone . . . Be discontented. Be dissatisfied.”

“I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.”

“Theres a great desire in people after a tragedy like this to go back to their lives as it was, ... This may not be possible for some.”

“What we are having difficulty with right now is finding the voice,”

“Possibly the most important phase to recovery is getting the life back to normal again, ... And what were talking about here in Corvallis is assisting people who want to get their lives back to normal, and who cannot go back to the life that is in the Gulf Coast because of Katrina.”

“If we only have five families that want to relocate, that is wonderful, ... We will have done what we should.”

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.