LAW & HISTORY > educator, university president > Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

There will be...

Vendor: LAW & HISTORY

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell... We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Source: On the atom bomb, at Duke University, Jan 1946.
-- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, (Jan 12 1890-1976), US educator, university president; He was president of Howard University for more than three decades; awarded the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP, 1928.


(C)2024 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA