Asks Quote by Frederick Douglass

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

— Frederick Douglass

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

— Ethel Waters

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

— James A. Baldwin

I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor…

— David Hume

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be…

— E. Franklin Frazier

“It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the white South…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

— Major Taylor

The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate with the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

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