Negroes Quotes

139 Negroes quotes by 86 unique authors

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
I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people. — Woody Guthrie
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and… — Samuel George Morton
The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel… — Gunnar Myrdal
To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does… — Marcus Garvey
Behind the murder of millions of Negroes annually in Africa is the well organized system of exploitation by the alien intruders who desire to rob… — Marcus Garvey
This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to… — Marcus Garvey
Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who have… — Marcus Garvey
Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to… — Marcus Garvey
In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic… — Carter G. Woodson
Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world,… — Marcus Garvey
Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over… — Fanny Kemble
I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it.… — Robert F. Williams
I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath… — Paul Robeson
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes. — Susan B. Anthony
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners. — Mahatma Gandhi
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind. — Langston Hughes
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the… — Zora Neale Hurston

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