Beginning Quote by Frederick Douglass

Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning.…

— Frederick Douglass

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is,…

— Anonymous

Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity,…

— James Baldwin

Everybody has asked the question, ... 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing…

— Frederick Douglass

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know…

— James A. Baldwin

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem…

— Booker T. Washington

“We need a powerful sense of determination to banish the ugly blemish of racism scarring the image of America. We can, of course, try…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

— Carter G. Woodson

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X