Answers Quote by Frederick Douglass

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have…

— Frederick Douglass

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

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

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

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 problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational…

— Malcolm X

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

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a…

— Frederick Douglass

I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

— Anonymous