Democracy Quote by Margaret Sanger

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

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

— Ethel Waters

“The negro population grew by leaps and bounds, until on the eve of the Revolution it amounted to more than half a million. In…

— Charles A. Beard

When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just…

— Annie Elizabeth Delany

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

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of…

— Booker T. Washington

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

“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

— Langston Hughes

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“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

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes