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Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace. -- Paul Robeson
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more. -- C. L. R. James
The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty . -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land. -- Paul Robeson
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population. -- Paul Robeson
Would America have been America without her Negro people? -- W. E. B. Du Bois
[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking. -- Malcolm X
America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. -- Harper Lee
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. -- Carter G. Woodson
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution -- Frederick Douglass
The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced. -- Margaret Halsey
You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt. -- Malcolm X
It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us. -- Annie Elizabeth Delany
We've gone through the names?Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that's an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black? -- Spike Lee
I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse. -- H. L. Mencken

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