Easier Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

— Malcolm X

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“We need a powerful sense of determination to banish the ugly blemish of racism scarring the image of America. We can, of course, try…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem…

— Booker T. Washington

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

— Carter G. Woodson

“I know what I'm asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand-and…

— James Baldwin

“The negro’s story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.”

— Colson Whitehead

It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long."…

— Langston Hughes

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions…

— Booker T. Washington

Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as…

— Malcolm X