Carolina Quotes
If you think that you can take power from somebody, I think that you are whistling Dixie. And I think that if Rockefeller anointed me tomorrow, "Floyd McKissick, be Rockefeller," he wouldn't give me any power by doing it. I think that power is something that you acquire by growth, stage, and skill, development of the mind and ability to use the mind successfully and the ability to deal with all facets of American society, and I think that power comes by having a damn sound analytical mind, and mind that doesn't carry chips on its shoulders, and the ability to have funds to solve problems with.
Floyd McKissick Carolinian
Source
Oral history interview by Jack Bass and Walter DeVries, December 6, 1973; Southern Oral History Program, Interview A-0134, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with Floyd B. McKissick Sr., Interview A-0134
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- 1973
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“If you think that you can take power from somebody, I think …” Floyd McKissick. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-B1E2C2D08A. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/b1e2c2d08a
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