Afraid Quote by Carter G. Woodson

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of…

— Tim Cook

The same way I'm not afraid of calling out systemic discrimination, I'm also not afraid of calling out inequality and the fact that inequality…

— Jagmeet Singh

I think fear has been racialised. When you get someone who says 'I was afraid' of a big black guy, that's enough to say,…

— Yance Ford

... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

“Negroes want to be treated like men: a perfectly straightforward statement, containing only seven words. People who have mastered Kant, Hegel, Shakespeare, Marx, Freud,…

— James Baldwin

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is…

— Ray Stannard Baker

When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over and over…

— Clint Smith

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with…

— Charles Evers

The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major…

— William Shockley

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

— Nat King Cole

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

— Langston Hughes