The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its…

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus…

— H. L. Mencken

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he…

— Carter G. Woodson

Slavery in America was perpetuated not merely by human badness but also by human blindness. ... Men convinced themselves that a system that was…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“They wore their professional clothes like armor. They wielded their work like weapons, warding off the presumption of inferiority because they were Negro or…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure…

— Mary Church Terrell

Sure as the most certain sure … plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,…

— Walt Whitman

“Inside the buff and haughty lurks the rough and extra-naughty. I like James more by the minute.”

— Elise Alden

Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course,…

— Scott Anderson

“She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say,…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from…

— Idries Shah

The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher,…

— Janusz Korczak

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

— John Ruskin

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon

He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.

— J. Sidlow Baxter

“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich