Asks Quote by Frederick Douglass

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

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

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

The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

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

“(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

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

— Ethel Waters

The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his…

— Malcolm X

“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

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none,…

— Zora Neale Hurston