African american Quote by Colin Allred

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

— Bernie Sanders

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that…

— Ella Baker

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

— Rand Paul

All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You now come…

— Danai Gurira

Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.

— A. Philip Randolph

Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere…

— Assata Shakur

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

— A. Philip Randolph

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

— Andrew Young

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Just as African Americans had learned that they did not have enough strength to make good the promises of emancipation, working people learned that…

— Howard Zinn

It saddens me that African Americans - when they express their pain, when they protest about police violence, when they question inequality, when they…

— Bryan Stevenson

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

— Ras Baraka