White people Quote by James Baldwin

White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved…

— James A. Baldwin

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem…

— Booker T. Washington

“There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be…

— James Baldwin

What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

“White Americans find it as difficult as white people elsewhere do to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession of some…

— James Baldwin

All peoples are struggling to blast a way through the industrial monopoly of races and nations, but the Negro as a whole has failed…

— Marcus Garvey

“Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“These white people don’t, and will never give a shit about us, so do what you got to do to survive in this society,…

— Desiree M. Granger

“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