Accepting Quote by Albert Pike

I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black,…

— Martin Delany

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of…

— Paul Williams

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…

— Malcolm X

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have…

— Frederick Douglass

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then…

— Abraham Lincoln

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying…

— John Sergeant Wise

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I…

— Malcolm X

Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake…

— Abraham Lincoln

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem…

— Booker T. Washington

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

— Angelina Grimke

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;…

— Malcolm X

Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning.…

— Frederick Douglass