Forever Quote by Jesse Helms

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

— Henry Carter Stuart

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

“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

The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom, there are…

— Malcolm X

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables…

— Malcolm X

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a…

— Frederick Douglass

The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man…

— Ida B. Wells