Black Quote by Carter G. Woodson

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them…

— Carter G. Woodson

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long."…

— Langston Hughes

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have…

— C. L. R. James

“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when…

— James Baldwin

When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never failed it in every crisis of its…

— Francis James Grimke

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

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know…

— James A. Baldwin

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 say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a…

— Malcolm X

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

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

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not…

— W. E. B. Du Bois