African american Quote by Marcus Garvey

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism…

— Malcolm X

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of…

— Malcolm X

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

— Jose Marti

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but…

— Carter G. Woodson

I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor…

— David Hume

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history.…

— Malcolm X

You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story.…

— Ralph McGill

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

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have…

— C. L. R. James

“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to look back;…

— James Baldwin

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know…

— James A. Baldwin

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin