Fear Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

“Since the white man's personality is greatly distorted by segregation, and his soul is greatly scarred, he needs the love of the Negro. The…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with…

— Elijah Muhammad

“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

“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

Once the white man let the Negro get an education, the Negro began to want what the white man has. But he let Negroes…

— Malcolm X

“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

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

— Kelly Miller

“Yet the average white person also has a responsibility. He has to resist the impulse to seize upon the rioter as the exclusive villain.…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Now it happens that both master and man have just enough argument on their respective sides to make it difficult for them to understand…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless…

— A. Philip Randolph

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

The indifference to lives not White must stop. The disregard for the fear of white terror must stop. And the lonely suffering in silence…

— Jonathan Capehart