Atticus being a mockingbird Quote by Harper Lee

“Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. ~Harper Lee, To…

— Harper Lee

People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

— Anonymous

“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were…

— James Baldwin

“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone…

— Frantz Fanon

Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all kinds of…

— Justin Simien

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling,…

— Toni Morrison

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is…

— Jesse Jackson

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

— Frederick Douglass

It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if they do…

— Martin Luther King, Jr