Afros Quote by Ida B. Wells Download Open image “The Afro-American is not a bestial race.” — Ida B. Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Afros Race Racism
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share
Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“the Afro-American experience, rejecting the false history, spurious logic, and expedient politics that collapse the situations of Afro-Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and indigenous Americans into a single category. He correctly insists that there is no counterpart for any other descent group to the one-drop or any-known-ancestry rule that, with minor exceptions, has historically identified Afro-Americans.” — Barbara J. Fields Copy Share
Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that. — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share
“[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only illogical but almost disrespectful to African immigrants. Here are people who were born in Africa, speak African languages, eat African food, dance in African ways, remember African stories, and will spiritually always be a part of Africa -and… — John McWhorter Copy Share
I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place.… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I always thought he gave me that name because I have a kind of outgoing or sunny disposition. And in those days I was… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time outside of… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning,… — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin countries read… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing… — Fannie Barrier Williams Copy Share Image
I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've… — Tim Meadows Copy Share Image
Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels… — Garth Fagan Copy Share Image
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