Autumn Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Color prejudice is at the bottom of everything. If it’s not fixed, the plight of the Negro will continue long after abolition.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will…

— Lyndon B Johnson

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them…

— Carter G. Woodson

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good…

— Anonymous

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

“It has come as a great revelation to me that abolitionist is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the…

— Sue Monk Kidd