Cities Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from…

— Anonymous

When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to learn how…

— Malcolm X

I'm inclined to believe that most Negro leaders, professional Negroes are professional Negroes. Being a Negro is their professional, and being a profe -…

— Malcolm X

Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they…

— Malcolm X

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

— Malcolm X

The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large…

— H. L. Mencken

Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro leader should…

— Malcolm X

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

— Malcolm X

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or…

— Malcolm X

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

— Malcolm X

I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous…

— Strom Thurmond

“the long and bitter political struggle in which he had engaged against slavery had not prepared Mr. Douglass to take up the equally difficult…

— Booker T. Washington

Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

— Malcolm X

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith...

— Rafael Sabatini

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps…

— Alexander MacLaren