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“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity,…

— James Baldwin

“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

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

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.”

— Malcolm X

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is,…

— Anonymous

“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and the Negro…

— Carter G. Woodson

“I came here from Kansas,” he announced to his captive. “This is a slave state. I want to free all the Negroes in this…

— Tony Horwitz

“I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I…

— Manu Herbstein

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless…

— A. Philip Randolph