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One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. -- Carter G. Woodson
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom. -- Malcolm X
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. -- Ethel Waters
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses. -- Malcolm X
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers. -- Nat King Cole
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. -- Carter G. Woodson
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do. -- Carter G. Woodson
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people. -- Carter G. Woodson
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. -- Marilyn Monroe
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. -- Alden Nowlan
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years. -- Malcolm X
I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong. -- Jermaine Jackson
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. -- Carter G. Woodson
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. -- Malcolm X
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies. -- Paul Robeson
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches. -- Jean Genet
For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro. -- Benjamin E. Mays
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon. -- Bayard Rustin
Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population. -- Roger B. Taney
Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church. -- Jesse Jackson
All men are created equal, except Negroes. -- Abraham Lincoln
But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans. -- Margaret Sanger
We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites. -- George Preston Marshall
Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated. -- Malcolm X
They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out. -- George Andrews
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. -- James Weldon Johnson
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train. -- Phillis Wheatley
There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me. -- James Meredith
Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. -- Carter G. Woodson
There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions. -- Malcolm X
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. -- Langston Hughes
I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long. -- Langston Hughes
Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference. -- Malcolm X
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. -- Abraham Lincoln
Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves. -- James A. Baldwin
I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes. -- Malcolm X
Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve. -- Indira Gandhi
Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. -- Harry J. Anslinger
In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in. -- Malcolm X
Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died. -- Ethel Waters
I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people. -- Woody Guthrie
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do. -- Carter G. Woodson
Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice. -- Harry J. Anslinger
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes. -- Nat King Cole
Now, just a word about the poor Negroes ... They're here. They've got to be cared for ... The poor Negroes have got to live, too. -- Huey Long
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes. -- Susan B. Anthony
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes. -- Abraham Lincoln
I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too. -- Clare Vanderpool
Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing. -- Malcolm X
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles. -- Djimon Hounsou
The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people. -- Immanuel Kant
The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization. -- Joel Augustus Rogers
You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house. -- Malcolm X
Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major degree by improvement in environment. -- William Shockley
I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling. -- Joe Biden
It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government. -- Malcolm X
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached. -- C. L. R. James
I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country ... -- Sarah-Patton Boyle
Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively. -- Malcolm X
A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. -- Ray Stannard Baker
The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters. -- Burke Marshall
These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous. -- Bertrand Russell
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity. -- Hubert Harrison
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. -- Samuel George Morton
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years. -- Malcolm X
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally. -- Katharine Whitehorn
The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house. -- Malcolm X
The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves. -- Malcolm X
White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races. -- Jesse Helms
I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation. -- David Hume
These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors. -- Malcolm X
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? -- Dmitri Mendeleev
When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared.... To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world. -- Marcus Garvey
It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things. -- James A. Baldwin
The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek. -- Malcolm X
[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents ... -- Dorothy Parker
I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself. -- James A. Baldwin
I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated. -- Ibn Khaldun
Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group. -- Marcus Garvey
...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people. -- Mao Zedong
When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin. -- James A. Baldwin
In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation. -- Carter G. Woodson
It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South. -- Malcolm X
To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive. -- Marcus Garvey
If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world, but if the rest of the world desire not, we seek not -- Marcus Garvey
I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did. -- Malcolm X
The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit... -- Margaret Sanger
You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country? -- Malcolm X
[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one. -- Frantz Fanon
When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere. -- Annie Elizabeth Delany
There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about 'our government is in trouble'. They say, 'The government is in trouble.' -- Malcolm X
I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites. -- Malcolm X
Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing. -- John Steinbeck
Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind. -- Malcolm X
The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will, I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes. -- Malcolm X
Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong -- economically, defensively and morally -- we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens. -- Jackie Robinson
I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake. -- Gordon Parks
There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others. -- Harry J. Anslinger
The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild. -- Malcolm X
I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not Negroes. -- Jane Swisshelm
The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States. -- George Mikes

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