Step forward Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

“Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to…

— Carter G. Woodson

“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

“I did not intend to allow the white people of this country to tell me who I was, and limit me that way, and…

— James Baldwin

“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.”

— Ben Carson

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…

— Carter G. Woodson

“I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying…

— John Howard Griffin

“I know some first-class Negroes. I also know some second-rate white people.”

— Lesley Kagen

“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

“Then the white man talk about how some people trying to use smooth talk to win people over and how totalitarianism always happens with…

— Marlon James

“Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.”

— Carson McCullers

“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

“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.”

— Kiese Laymon