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Negro Quotes by Ida B. Wells
- In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of…
- The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or…
- The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race…
- What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing…
- The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been…
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- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — James A. Baldwin
- The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy… — Mary McLeod Bethune
- One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living… — George Washington Carver
- The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It… — Maya Angelou
- I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a… — Susan B. Anthony
- My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean,… — Tupac Shakur
- The day for the Negro man being a coward is over. — James Meredith
- The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself… — Elijah Muhammad
- Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price… — James A. Baldwin
- Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is… — Unknown Author
- What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to… — Mary McLeod Bethune