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Negro Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated…
- I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to…
- In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the…
- To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.
- I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say…
- Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
- For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost…
- The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell…
- The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.
- Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the…
- If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.
- By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.
- The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes…
- I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.
- There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of…
- You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without…
- It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred…
- We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never…
- America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'
- Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort…
- As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension…
- I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she…
- When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro…
- It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole…
- Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved…
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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