"Every race and every nation should be judged……" — James Weldon Johnson

"Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst."

— James Weldon Johnson

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47 Quotes by James Weldon Johnson

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She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand…
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the…
A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized…
At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I…
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice,…
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear,…
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are…

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