American civil war Quote by Alexander H. Stephens

“its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination…

— Lance T. Stewart

“Now it happens that both master and man have just enough argument on their respective sides to make it difficult for them to understand…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

— Frederick Douglass

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one…

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

“To make his way, the Negro must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. He must gear himself to hard work all the way. He can…

— Anonymous

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“It has come as a great revelation to me that abolitionist is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr