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Negroes Quotes by Paul Robeson
- 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…
- Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely?…
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- There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me. — James Meredith
- When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been… — Aime Cesaire
- We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of… — Abraham Lincoln
- Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated. — Malcolm X
- It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .… — Alexander Hamilton
- Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington
- In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in… — Malcolm X
- Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate… — Dmitri Mendeleev
- I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these… — Malcolm X