World Quote by Gordon Parks

Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.

— James Weldon Johnson

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we…

— Issa Rae

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses,…

— Pat Buchanan

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

— Washington Irving

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

The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.

— Mary Landrieu

When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were…

— Ed Smith

To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician…

— Marcus Garvey

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Washington, D.C. is not on the side of mainstream and main street America.

— Mark Meadows