American society Quote by Gerda Lerner

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people…

— Margaret Halsey

The true Negro does not want integration... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race.

— Jerry Falwell

When you're Black in the United States, you grudgingly grow accustomed to having people deny that your existence is integral to everything that makes…

— Jonathan Capehart

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong…

— Jackie Robinson

The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with…

— Elijah Muhammad

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest…

— Jewell Jackson McCabe

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black, you are…

— Tyler Perry

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of…

— Nate Parker

I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go…

— John Henrik Clarke

If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society - take control of our neighborhoods, our…

— James Meredith

Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems.

— Shawn Amos