Frases de Ralph David Abernathy

Ralph David Abernathy , fue un líder estadounidense por los derechos civiles de los negros.

En 1948 se ordenó pastor bautista y dos años después se licenció en matemáticas en el Alabama State College.

Fundó diversas organizaciones dedicadas a lograr la igualdad para la población negra en Estados Unidos. En 1957, Abernathy y sus colegas Martin Luther King y Bayard Rustin crearon la Conferencia Sur de Liderazgo Cristiano de la cual, King fue presidente y Albernathy su secretario y tesorero. Posteriormente, con el asesinato de King el 4 de abril de 1968 en Menphis , Abernathy le sucedió como presidente de la SCLC continuando su lucha por los derechos civiles de la comunidad negra.

En 1968 organizó la huelga de los trabajadores sanitarios de Atlanta y en 1969 la huelga de los trabajadores hospitalarios de Charleston. El 15 de enero de 1969 pronunció un discurso en el Servicio Conmemorativo de Martin Luther King.

En 1977 renunció a la presidencia de la SCLC y se presentó a las elecciones para ser elegido congresista, pero no alcanzó tal puesto.

En 1989 publicó "Y los muros están comenzando a caer", su autobiografía. Es autor de la famosa frase "Se puede matar al soñador pero no al sueño". Murió de un infarto al corazón. Wikipedia

✵ 11. marzo 1926 – 17. abril 1990

Ralph David Abernathy: Frases en inglés

“Now all the week long we've gone through that period of preparation, gettin' ourselves ready, askin' God to get us ready, askin' Him to purge us with His discipline and burn us with his fire and cleanse us and make us holy and ready to stand. For when you go down to downtown, you are goin' down there amidst mean and cruel people. Your'e goin' down there 'midst the police force and you've got to have God on your side. So you need to get ready. Ask Him to prepare you as He did Shadrach, Meshach and ABednego. You know, when they went to the fiery furnance, they said to the king, "We will not bow" But God was on their side… Just like God went in the fiery furnace with the three Hebrew boys, God will go with us on whatever operation we decide on. Now, you can't win the battle at home. You got to go to the battlefield. Now when you go to the battlefield, ain't no need to go out there without expectin' to have some casualitites. Somebody will get hurt. I don't know who it will be. It may be me. If it is me, I can only rejoice in the Lord that I had a little part to play… Now nobody can enjoin God. I don't care what kind of injuction the city attorney seeks to get, he cannot enjoin God. This is God's movement. Nobody can enjoin God. There can be no injuction against God. Because Albany does not belong to the Democratic Party of the state of Georgia. Albany does not beong to the Republicans of the state of Georgia. Albany does not belong to Governor Vandiver. Albany does not belong to the white people of the state of Georgia. All-benny belongs to God, for the prophet said: "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulllnes thereof, the world and they that dwell therein."”

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Ralph Abernathy

And this is God's world, this is God's All-benny, and God tells us that out of one blood He created all nations that dwell upon the face of this earth."
In a sermon he gave on 15 December 1961, during the Albany Movement; as quoted in Watters, Pat. 2012. Down to Now: Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement. University of Georgia Press. pp. 202-203.