Bodies Quote by A. Philip Randolph

Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose…

— Malcolm X

“They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and…

— Shelby Foote

“Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled…

— James A. Michener

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

— L. Neil Smith

Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation…

— Eric Foner

The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter.…

— Malcolm X

“The negroes been freed.' 'Well, I ain't.”

— Andrew Lytle

Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right to improve…

— Eric Foner

Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.

— A. Philip Randolph

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

— Malcolm X

“Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor “of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

— Malcolm X