Atmosphere Quote by Carter G. Woodson

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

— Carter G. Woodson

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

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

“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

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

— James A. Baldwin

The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate with the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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 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

Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African…

— Roger B. Taney

What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of…

— W. E. B. Du Bois