Negroes Quotes

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In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived,… — Richard Rodriguez
What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking --… — David Duke
Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes… — Mamie Till
Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite… — Ibn Khaldun
I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that… — Abraham Lincoln
Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture… — Unknown Author
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children. — John Sergeant Wise
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of… — John Sergeant Wise
I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it — Albert Pike
Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice. — Harry J. Anslinger
Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankindMost marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. — Harry J. Anslinger
I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long. — Langston Hughes
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted. — John A. Logan
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln
The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have… — Abraham Lincoln
The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with… — Eubie Blake
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three… — Unknown Author
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of… — Hubert Harrison
The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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

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