“I have received the favor of your letter of August 17th, and with it the volume you were so kind as to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and… — Samuel Hopkins Copy Share Image
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
“How far the gentlemen of dark complexion will get with their independence, now that they have declared it, I don’t know. There… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“But Little Grandmother did not keep in touch with her namesake, my mother, Margaret Morris. News about Will Morris's younger daughter reached… — Shirlee Taylor Haizlip Copy Share Image
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share Image
I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the… — Howlin' Wolf Copy Share Image
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields… — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
