American Quote by Jackie Robinson

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have…

— C. L. R. James

When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never failed it in every crisis of its…

— Francis James Grimke

It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of…

— Tim Kaine

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their…

— Frederick Douglass

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong…

— Jackie Robinson

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity,…

— James Baldwin

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

— Angelina Grimke

I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We…

— Jackie Robinson

I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons. That's why…

— Michelle Alexander

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

— Martin Luther King, Jr