Politics Quote by Joseph E. Persico

“Negroes were drafted, white men weren’t; the poor were hauled off to war, the rich weren’t; the stupid were shot at, the bright boys…

— James A. Michener

“The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's 'colored troops,' a flailing Confederacy began…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We must have black troops, and a limitless number of them too - paid and treated like their white brothers.

— Benjamin Lincoln

“It was the lot of the Fifity-fourth to bear the brunt of the struggle against the bitter injustice of inferior pay to which black…

— Luis Fenollosa Emilio

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then…

— Abraham Lincoln

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou

“They wore their professional clothes like armor. They wielded their work like weapons, warding off the presumption of inferiority because they were Negro or…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“Just as African Americans had learned that they did not have enough strength to make good the promises of emancipation, working people learned that…

— Howard Zinn

“I was in the army… We went to fight a bad white man, or so the whites told us. We had meetings that were…

— Robert Joseph Shea

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…

— Carter G. Woodson

“They’re Americans when they win races, and when they get conscripted into the army,’ Dave said. ‘But they’re Negroes when they want to buy…

— Ken Follett

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

— Douglas MacArthur