Charles Ogletree Quotes
Whenever we make it over the threshold, we have to reach back and help others.
Charles Ogletree, Attorney and Legal Scholar, Referring to Blacks who make it and his view of their obligation to assist others, Interview with Brian Lamb, C-SPAN, April 20, 2004
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This was an indirect slap at the Boy Scouts of America. At the time, racial segregation was legal and overtly practiced in the Southern States. The Boy Scouts could have been a great force for desegregation, but the leadership did not have that as a value for the organization. The Girl Scout leadership however saw the contradiction between segregation and the supposed values of America and their own organization. They were not only very active but very successful at desegregation at a time when they were atypical, and for most Americans, segregation was the norm.
Charles James Ogletree Jr. is an American attorney and law professor who is currently the Jesse Climenko Professor at Harvard Law School, the founder of the school's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, and the author of numerous books on legal topics.