Cannot Quote by Malcolm X

The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational…

— Malcolm X

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem…

— Booker T. Washington

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

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 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

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

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers

“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when…

— James Baldwin

“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of those which…

— Carter G. Woodson

“Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But every group…

— Isabel Wilkerson

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal…

— Carter G. Woodson