Gordon Parks Quotes
I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.
Parks, Gordon. A Choice of Weapons. Harper & Row, 1966.
Note that he would require a level of education for a citizen to possess weapons. In America it has been suggested that gun training be required as a condition, but the notion of general education is quite different. He was executed for rebellion at age 29. However, a number of his followers went on to leadership positions in the reforms that followed.
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americans—and in glamour photography.
