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Negro Quotes by Martin Luther
- It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy…
- A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the…
- Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great…
- In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore…
More Negro Quotes
- 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