Dressings Quote by 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

Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.

— Medgar Evers

Black people have been working hard for decades.

— Cornel West

I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

— Major Taylor

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong…

— Jackie Robinson

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills…

— Jesse Helms

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

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

There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away…

— Hank Aaron