America Quote by Jackie Robinson

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

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

The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from…

— Kenneth Clark

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake…

— Abraham Lincoln

For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking…

— David Duke

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

— Major Taylor

The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving,…

— Che Guevara

I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom…

— Zora Neale Hurston

There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The…

— Darryl Pinckney