Negro Quotes

376 Negro quotes by 164 unique authors

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them. — Douglas MacArthur
And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus… — Warren Jeffs
The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate with the purer… — Henry Ward Beecher
I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My… — Abraham Lincoln
An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man… — James A. Baldwin
Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,… — James A. Baldwin
A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes,… — Ray Stannard Baker
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman… — Ray Stannard Baker
Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white… — Josephine Baker
Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with… — W. E. B. Du Bois
White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. — Gordon Parks
When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is… — Medgar Evers
But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent… — Logan Pearsall Smith
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the… — Ferguson Jenkins
So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the… — Warren Jeffs
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman. — Susan B. Anthony
The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as… — Harry S. Truman
I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States. — Althea Gibson
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… — Martin Luther
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress,… — Frantz Fanon
Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a… — Archie Shepp
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music. — Archie Shepp
The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and… — Carter G. Woodson
We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the… — Carter G. Woodson

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