Black Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in…

— Bill Ayers

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers

“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same; the ignorant…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which…

— Carter G. Woodson

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

— H. Rap Brown

When someone is in 'the struggle,' which many of our black communities are in, they are living with a lack of educational facilities, high…

— Kenny Smith

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means…

— Angela Davis

“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

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

“Now it happens that both master and man have just enough argument on their respective sides to make it difficult for them to understand…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“I know the South claims that it has spent millions for the education of the blacks, and that it has of its own free…

— James Weldon Johnson