They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out. — George Andrews Copy Share Image
“I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.” — Robert F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think theyll take care of me. — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home. — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
“Negroes were drafted, white men weren’t; the poor were hauled off to war, the rich weren’t; the stupid were shot at, the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any… — Hubert Harrison Copy Share Image
I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . .… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the Negroes do not connect morals with religion. The historian would like to know what race or… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“Well how do you know we ain’t Negroes?” “Uncle Jack Finch says we really don’t know. He says as far as he… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“the Indian slave was inefficient. The Spaniards discovered that one Negro was worth four Indians.22 A prominent official in Hispaniola insisted in… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
“Negroes want to be treated like men: a perfectly straightforward statement, containing only seven words. People who have mastered Kant, Hegel, Shakespeare,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed… — John Brunner 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
I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“the so-called radical Negroes who have read and misunderstood Karl Marx and his disciples and would solve the political as well as… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“I was just as black as I had been the day that I was born. Therefore, when I faced a congregation, it… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“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
I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro… — Fannie Lou Hamer 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
“By 1870, roughly 284,000 blacks accounted for 12 percent of the population of sixteen Western states and territories. But Negroes actually show… — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
“THEY WERE PEOPLE who went in for Negroes—Michael and Anne—the Carraways. But not in the social-service, philanthropic sort of way, no. They… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes. — Medgar Evers Copy Share Image
Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way. — Will M Cook Copy Share Image
The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
