Negroes Quotes

139 Negroes quotes by 86 unique authors

There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me. — James Meredith
When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler… — Aime Cesaire
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you,… — Abraham Lincoln
Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated. — Malcolm X
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being… — Alexander Hamilton
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the… — Malcolm X
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why… — Dmitri Mendeleev
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
You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario: you are alone… — Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.
What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud and… — Richard M. Nixon
Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been… — Horace Porter
It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes… — Adolf Hitler
I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair… — Thomas Paine
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers. — Nat King Cole
We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Indians,… — Mark E. Petersen
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. — James Weldon Johnson
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? — Samuel Johnson
For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger… — 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
I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now… — Malcolm X

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