Black people Quote by Ian Bell

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

“The belief that the Civil War wasn’t for us was the result of the country’s long search for a narrative that could reconcile white…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Black Americans were hardly losing any moral or cultural battles. They were being violently and nonviolently defeated in political and economic battles, as Du…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“At the time i didn't realize why there was so much Klan activity, but later I learned that it was because African-American soldiers werre…

— Rosa Parks

“The negro workers are still unaware of the force that can give them union organization; happy industrialists.”

— King Albert I of Belgium

“Just as African Americans had learned that they did not have enough strength to make good the promises of emancipation, working people learned that…

— Howard Zinn

“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

“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with a willingness…

— Russell Banks

“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and I could…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told him about…

— Tony Horwitz

“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult…

— Booker T. Washington

I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we had entrepreneurship…

— John Henrik Clarke