Answers Quote by Langston Hughes

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means…

— Stanley Crouch

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

— A. Philip Randolph

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's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

— Malcolm X

It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition,…

— Malcolm X

“Every hope of the existence of church and of state, and of civilization itself, hangs upon our arduous effort to defeat the doctrine of…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

— Carter G. Woodson

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless…

— A. Philip Randolph

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.

— A. Philip Randolph

African Americans know implicitly that you cannot take freedoms for granted and that democracy is precious. And it's worth fighting for.

— Colin Allred

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else…

— Mary Church Terrell