Negroes Quotes

139 Negroes quotes by 86 unique authors

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
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.

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