Negro People Quotes

14 quotes by 7 authors

• 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.
• Would America have been America without her Negro people? — W. E. B. Du Bois
• Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people… — Muhammad Ali
• The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may… — W. E. B. Du Bois
• The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
• 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… — 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
• America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached… — C L R James
• I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the… — Paul Robeson
• The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that… — Paul Robeson

Who Wrote These Negro People Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 14 Negro People Quotes as follows:

• 4 Negro People Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 3 Negro People Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
• 3 Negro People Quotes by Paul Robeson
• 1 Negro People Quote by Muhammad Ali
• 1 Negro People Quote by Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
• 1 Negro People Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Negro People Quote by C L R James