American life Quote by Anonymous

Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the…

— Thurgood Marshall

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history.…

— Malcolm X

“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva comments: “[The] melting pot never included people of color. Blacks, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, et cetera, could not melt into the pot. They…

— Debby Irving

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their…

— Frederick Douglass

All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole has failed…

— Marcus Garvey

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong…

— Jackie Robinson

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

— Carter G. Woodson

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

— Carter G. Woodson

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.

— Marcus Garvey

I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Assimilation and melting into the American pot has always been easier [for white people]. It's very hard for blackfolk to melt into the pot.…

— Chuck D

When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just…

— Annie Elizabeth Delany