Docile Quote by Langston Hughes

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

— Ethel Waters

“Negroes want to be treated like men: a perfectly straightforward statement, containing only seven words. People who have mastered Kant, Hegel, Shakespeare, Marx, Freud,…

— James Baldwin

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character,…

— Samuel George Morton

I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something…

— Paul Robeson

In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for…

— Frederick Douglass

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from…

— Bertrand Russell

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials…

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect.

— Harry Reid

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind…

— Malcolm X

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

— Frederick Douglass