Fear Quote by Henry Carter Stuart

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

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 has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“To make his way, the Negro must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. He must gear himself to hard work all the way. He can…

— Anonymous

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X

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

“Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh…

— John Kennedy Toole

“Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.”

— Carson McCullers