Negro Quotes

376 Negro quotes by 164 unique authors

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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts… — H. L. Mencken
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression.… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that… — Langston Hughes
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That… — Langston Hughes
A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I… — Sylvia Plath
America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he… — Frederick Douglass
Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy… — A. Philip Randolph
Carmen Jones was the first all-Negro film that became a great box-office success. It established the fact that pictures with Negro artists, pictures dealing with… — Harry Belafonte
It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when… — Louis Armstrong
When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It… — Harry Belafonte
She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God… — Zora Neale Hurston
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights… — Paul Robeson
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of… — Samuel George Morton
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for… — Paul Robeson
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… — Ida B. Wells
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo… — Stephen King
The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home.… — Medgar Evers
The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether… — James Weldon Johnson
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no… — Abraham Lincoln
American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future. — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude. — Frantz Fanon
My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute… — Frantz Fanon
I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for… — Andrew Johnson

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