Negroes Quotes

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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.'… — Abraham Lincoln
[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks… — Frantz Fanon
You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead… — Mary McLeod Bethune
The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites,… — Margaret Sanger
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing… — Djimon Hounsou
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to… — Bayard Rustin
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom. — Malcolm X
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall… — Malcolm X
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who… — Malcolm X
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses. — Malcolm X
For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners… — Benjamin E. Mays
Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race,… — Roger B. Taney
In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes… — Samuel Hopkins
It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so. — Thomas L. Smith
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker… — C L R James
I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even… — Nat Turner
I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black… — Abraham Lincoln
Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way. — Will M Cook
... as a result of generations of betrayal, it's nearly impossible for Southern Negroes to trust a Southern white. No matter what he does or… — Sarah Patton Boyle

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