Negroes Quotes

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Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that… — Langston Hughes
These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes. — Nat King Cole
The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes… — Burke Marshall
All men are created equal, except Negroes. — Abraham Lincoln
I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for… — Andrew Johnson
I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the… — Gordon Parks
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared.... To stay murder… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too. — Clare Vanderpool
I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even… — David Hume
There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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 people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars. — John Henninger Reagan
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about… — Alden Nowlan
The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia… — George Mikes

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