Negro Quotes

376 Negro quotes by 164 unique authors

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the… — Abraham Lincoln
Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses… — Ella Baker
No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.....it is simply… — Thomas Huxley
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more… — Margaret E. Knight
I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking… — Malcolm X
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. — Ralph Ellison
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some… — Paul Robeson
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. — Langston Hughes
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,… — James A. Baldwin
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… — Martin Luther
Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed… — Barney Rosset
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we… — Duke Ellington
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. — Nat King Cole
Talk about handicap! I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins… — Isaac Hayes
If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he… — Mark E. Petersen
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully… — Susan B. Anthony
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… — Ida B. Wells
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… — Ida B. Wells
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that… — Booker T. Washington
It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem.… — Malcolm X
His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When… — Malcolm X
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not… — James A. Baldwin

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