Asks Quote by Frederick Douglass

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

— Frederick Douglass

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus…

— H. L. Mencken

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

— Henry Carter Stuart

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the…

— Anonymous

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

In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for…

— 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

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere…

— Jesse Helms

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without…

— Anonymous

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

There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live in isolation…

— Richard Wright