Negro Quotes

376 Negro quotes by 164 unique authors

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. — Archie Shepp
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. — Frederick Douglass
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. — W. E. B. Du Bois
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers. — W. E. B. Du Bois
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers… — W. E. B. Du Bois
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the different… — Louis Leakey
The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact… — George Bernard Shaw
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life. — John F. Kennedy
Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought… — Langston Hughes
If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing… — Langston Hughes
If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo… — Langston Hughes
Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around… — Malcolm X
A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and,… — Malcolm X
I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the… — Malcolm X
What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own… — Romare Bearden
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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